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eight 4.0 mm cancellous screws into polyurethane bone blocks of 0.1 g/cm 3 . First, they were asked to insert eight screws to create ‘maximum construct stability’. Screws causing stripping were recorded, being 42% of all insertions for this component of
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the effect of physeal pressure on bone growth. 1 Phemister was the first surgeon to describe an open epiphysiodesis technique in 1933. 2 This procedure consisted of the removal of a rectangular bone block from the medial and lateral physes