Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery
Volume 19, Issue 6 , Pages 929-936 , September 2010

Delayed treatment of elbow pain and dysfunction following Essex-Lopresti injury with metallic radial head replacement: A case series

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 This study was approved 7/16/2009 by the Institutional Review Board of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN with study number 633-04.

PII: S1058-2746(10)00119-9

doi: 10.1016/j.jse.2010.03.007

Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery
Volume 19, Issue 6 , Pages 929-936 , September 2010

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