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JBJS Case Connect. 2013 Sep 11;3(3):e90. doi: 10.2106/JBJS.CC.L.00274.

A Pulseless Extremity Following an Apparently Nondisplaced Proximal Humeral Physeal Fracture: A Case Report.

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Justin M Hall, Jeffrey R Sawyer, William C Warner, Alice Moisan, Derek M Kelly

Affiliations

  1. University of Tennessee-Campbell Clinic Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, 1211 Union Avenue, Suite 510, Memphis, TN 38104. [email protected].

PMID: 29252271 DOI: 10.2106/JBJS.CC.L.00274

[No abstract available.]

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