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Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 402378, 4 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/402378
Case Report

Rotationplasty in the Elderly

Jendrik Hardes,1 Gerhard Ulrich Exner,2 Dieter Rosenbaum,3 Arne Streitbuerger,1 Carsten Gebert,1 Georg Gosheger,1 and Helmut Ahrens1

1Department of Orthopaedics, Westfälische Wilhelms University Münster, Albert Schweitzer strasse 33, 48149 Münster, Germany
2Balgrist Hospital, University of Zurich, 8006 Zurich, Switzerland
3Movement Analysis Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedics, Westfälische Wilhelms University Münster, Domagkstrasse 3, 48129 Münster, Germany

Received 31 March 2008; Revised 13 May 2008; Accepted 8 July 2008

Academic Editor: Ajay Puri

Copyright © 2008 Jendrik Hardes et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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