Locking plates – The ultimate implant?

Vet Comp Orthop Traumatol 2009; 22(02): I
DOI: 10.3415/VCOT-09-02-0023

Editorial

Schattauer GmbH

"Nothing holds up the progress of science so much as the right idea at the wrong time." Vincent de Vigneaud, Canada (1978)

Kenneth Johnson

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