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Case Reports in Orthopedics
Volume 2015, Article ID 160381, 3 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/160381
Case Report

Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction in Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome

John Williams, Jonathan Hutt, and Mark Rickman

Trauma and Orthopaedic Department, St George’s University Hospital, London SW17 0QT, UK

Received 26 May 2015; Accepted 21 June 2015

Academic Editor: George Mouzopoulos

Copyright © 2015 John Williams 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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