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Prediction of risk of fracture neck femur even without any radiation exposure simply by measuring the inter- epicondylar distance with the help of sensitive calipers

 

Subodh Kumar

 

Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy, Nalanda Medical College Patna, INDIA.

Email: subodh.nmc@gmail.com

  

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