Total Knee Replacement
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University of Iowa Department of Orthopaedics. Total knee replacement: a patient guide. Available at: http://www.vh.org/adult/patient/orthopaedics/kneereplacement/ Accessed August 11, 2003.
Last reviewed March 2008 by Robert Leach, MD and Richard Glickman-Simon, MD
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