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Reply to the letter to the editor: shortening osteotomy of the proximal radius

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Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy Aims and scope

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Center for Orthopedic and Trauma Surgery, University Medical Center of Cologne, Kerpener Straße 62, 50937, Cologne, Germany

    Michael Hackl, Kilian Wegmann & Lars P. Müller

  2. Medical Faculty, Cologne Center for Musculoskeletal Biomechanics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

    Michael Hackl, Kilian Wegmann, Martin Scaal & Lars P. Müller

  3. Department of Anatomy I, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

    Michael Hackl & Wolfram F. Neiss

  4. Institute of Bioengineering, Aachen University of Applied Sciences, Jülich, Germany

    Stephanie L. Kahmann & Manfred Staat

  5. Institute for Medical Engineering, Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany

    Nicolai Heinze

  6. Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany

    Nicolai Heinze

  7. Department of Anatomy II, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

    Martin Scaal

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K. Wegmann and L. P. Müller have received travel and research support from Medartis AG and have on-going consultancies with Medartis AG.

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The Institutional Review Board of the Medical University of Cologne approved this study (approval number 15-097).

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Hackl, M., Wegmann, K., Kahmann, S.L. et al. Reply to the letter to the editor: shortening osteotomy of the proximal radius. Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc 25, 3328–3329 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00167-017-4666-8

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