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Chapter 2 - Elbow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2016

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Christopher Hogrefe ,
Ross Mathiasen  and
Timothy W. Thomsen
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Anna L. Waterbrook
Anna L. Waterbrook
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University of Arizona
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Sports Medicine for the Emergency Physician
A Practical Handbook
 , pp. 57 - 103
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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