Medical Hypotheses
Volume 55, Issue 6 , Pages 474-479 , December 2000

Surgical harvesting of bone graft from the ilium: point of view

  • J.L. Russell

      Affiliations

    • Osteotech Inc. Eatontown, New Jersey, USA
    • ,
  • J.E. Block

      Affiliations

    • San Francisco, California, USA

Received 19 November 1999 ,Accepted 16 February 2000.

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doi: 10.1054/mehy.2000.1095

Medical Hypotheses
Volume 55, Issue 6 , Pages 474-479 , December 2000

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