DOI: 10.20286/ijtmgh-03015 International Journal of Travel Medicine and Global Health

http://journals.bmsu.ac.ir/ijtmgh Int J Travel Med Glob Health. 2015;3(1):3-4

Patent Open Access

Introducing an Invention: Puzzle Shaped Cast for Upper Limb Fractures

1. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

2. Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

*Corresponding Author: Solmaz Ehteshami Afshar, MD, University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada

Email: solmaz.ehteshamiafshar@gmail.com

Abstract

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