1Department of Orthopedic, Trauma and Reconstructive Surgery, Percy Military Hospital, Clamart, France
2French Military Health Service Academy, Ecole du Val-de-Grâce, Paris, France
3Tissue Engineering and Proteomics Team, Université Paris, Bobigny, France
4Military Biomedical Research Institute, Brétigny-sur-Orge, France
L. Mathieu, Department of Orthopedic, Trauma and Reconstructive Surgery, Percy Military Hospital, 101 Avenue Henri Barbusse, 92140 Clamart, France, Email: [email protected]
The institution of one or more of the authors (LM, JCM AdR, NdlE, DL, JMC, MD) has received funding from the Délégation Générale de l’Armement (grant numbers PDH-SAN-1-0217 and 0226) of the French Ministry of Defence.
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