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HAHN-HUNTINGTON OPERATION
Opération destinée à remédier à une pseudoarthrose
du tibia avec perte de substance étendue. Main entry as Hahn-Steinthal
operation, under N. F. Hahn.
Bibliography
T. W. Huntington:
Case of bone transference. Use of a segment of
fibula to supply a defect in the tibia.
Annals of Surgery, Philadelphia, February, 1905, 41: 249-251.
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