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Simon’s EMERGENCY ORTHOPEDICS
Seventh Edition
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Emergency orthopedics (Simon)
Simon’s emergency orthopedics / editor, Scott C. Sherman ; contributing authors, Ghazala Q. Sharieff [and 31 others] ; with illustrations by Susan Gilbert and Catherine Delphia. – Seventh edition.
p. ; cm.
Preceded by: Emergency orthopedics / editors, Robert R. Simon, Scott C. Sherman. 6th ed. c2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-07-181965-7 (hardcover : alk. paper) – ISBN 0-07-181965-7 (hardcover : alk. paper)
I. Sherman, Scott C., editor. II. Sharieff, Ghazala Q. III. Title.
[DNLM: 1. Extremities–injuries. 2. Emergency Medicine–methods. 3. Orthopedics–methods. 4. Spinal Injuries–therapy. 5. Wounds and Injuries–therapy. WE 800]
RD750
617.5′8044–dc23
2014020126
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