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Conflict of interest
Peter Augat serves as a member of the research committee of the
OTC Foundation. Jörg Goldhahn is employee of Novartis AG.
Acknowledgement
The guest editors and all other authors of this supplement express their
thanks to the Osteosynthesis and Trauma Care (OTC) Foundation and
its grantor for the sponsorship of the workshop and this volume.
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Peter Augat
a,
*
a
Institute of Biomechanics, Trauma Center Murnau, Germany & Paracelsus
Medical University Salzburg, Austria
Jörg Goldhahn
b
b
Institute for Biomechanics of ETH Zurich, Leopold-Ruzicka-Weg 4, 8093
Zürich, Switzerland
*
Corresponding author at: Prof.-Kuentscher-Str. 8, 82418 Murnau am
Staffelsee, Germany. Tel.:
+49 8841 484563;
fax:
+49 8841 484573
.
E-mail addresses:
biomechanik@bgu-murnau.de(P. Augat),
jgoldhahn@ethz.ch(J. Goldhahn).
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