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Editorial
. 2022 Nov 25:10:1094813.
doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2022.1094813. eCollection 2022.

Editorial: Innovations to improve screw fixation in traumatology and orthopedic surgery

Jonas Widmer  1 , Carl-Eric Aubin  2 , G Harry van Lenthe  3 , Keitaro Matsukawa  4
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Editorial: Innovations to improve screw fixation in traumatology and orthopedic surgery

Jonas Widmer et al. Front Bioeng Biotechnol. .
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Keywords: bone erosion; bone screw; screw loosening; screw pull-out; screw resilience; spine fixaton.

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