Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology
Volume 20, Issue 2 , Pages 241-262 , April 2006

Is musculoskeletal history and examination so different in paediatrics?

  • Helen E. Foster, MD FRCP, FRCPCH, DCH, Cert Med Ed (Clinical Senior Lecturer Paediatric Rheumatology)

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doi: 10.1016/j.berh.2005.11.001

Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology
Volume 20, Issue 2 , Pages 241-262 , April 2006

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