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Letter To the Editor: Unexplained Fractures: Child Abuse or Bone Disease: A Systematic Review

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Correspondence to Cathleen Lang MD.

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Re: Pandya NK, Baldwin K, Kamath AF, Wenger DR, Hosalkar HS. Unexplained fractures: child abuse or bone disease: A systematic review. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2011;469:805–812.

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Lang, C. Letter To the Editor: Unexplained Fractures: Child Abuse or Bone Disease: A Systematic Review. Clin Orthop Relat Res 469, 3253–3254 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11999-011-2021-9

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