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I usually put tibia/fibula sm

Posted By: Okie MT on 2007-10-29
In Reply to: Tib-fib, how to transcribe it? Thanks. NM - kathy smith

Subject: I usually put tibia/fibula sm

But it depends on whether your account is verbatim or not. If the doc insists on it, I will put tib/fib.


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