The Spine Journal
Volume 6, Issue 5 , Pages 544-549 , September 2006

Posttraumatic coccygeal instability

  • Elyazid Mouhsine, MD

      Affiliations

    • Orthopaedics and Trauma Department, University Hospital, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Associate Professor, Orthopaedics and Trauma Department, University Hospital, CHUV BH-14, CH-1011 Lausanne, Switzerland. Tel.: 00 41 21 314 27 91; fax: 00 41 21 314 28 00.
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  • Raffaele Garofalo, MD

      Affiliations

    • Orthopaedics and Trauma Department, University Hospital, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
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  • François Chevalley, MD

      Affiliations

    • Orthopaedics and Trauma Department, University Hospital, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
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  • Biagio Moretti, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Methodology and Surgical Technique, Orthopedics Section II, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
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  • Nicolas Theumann, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University Hospital, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
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  • Olivier Borens, MD

      Affiliations

    • Orthopaedics and Trauma Department, University Hospital, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
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  • Nicola Maffulli, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery, Keele University, School of Medicine, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, United Kingdom
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  • Constantin Schizas, MD

      Affiliations

    • Orthopaedics and Trauma Department, University Hospital, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
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  • Michael Wettstein, MD

      Affiliations

    • Orthopaedics and Trauma Department, University Hospital, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland

Received 7 June 2005 ,Accepted 10 December 2005.

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PII: S1529-9430(05)01067-3

doi: 10.1016/j.spinee.2005.12.004

The Spine Journal
Volume 6, Issue 5 , Pages 544-549 , September 2006

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