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Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy Aims and scope

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Beaufils, P. Letter to the editors. Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc 20, 1879–1880 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00167-011-1656-0

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