Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology
Volume 20, Issue 1 , Pages 57-68 , February 2006

Is MRI useful in osteoarthritis?

  • Philip Conaghan, MB, BS, PhD, FRACP, FRCP (Professor of Musculoskeletal Medicine)

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doi: 10.1016/j.berh.2005.08.003

Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology
Volume 20, Issue 1 , Pages 57-68 , February 2006

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