From the *Department of Orthopaedics, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC; †OrthoIndy, Indianapolis, IN; the ‡Depart-ment of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; the §Department of Orthopaedics, SUNY Upstate Medical University and University Hospital, Syracuse, NY; the ∥Department of Orthopaedics, Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL; and the ¶Department of Orthopaedics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Received: July 18, 2005 Revised: March 30, 2007; July 30, 2007 Accepted: August 24, 2007
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The Corresponding Author confirms six of the seven authors were required to design this retrospective study and all materially participated in at least three major elements of the study and report.
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