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Case report| Volume 26, ISSUE 1, P70-71, January 1995

High substantial rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament in a 6-year-old boy

  • R.N. Svendsen
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    Department of Orthopaedics, County Hospital of Roskilde, Denmark
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