Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology
Volume 20, Issue 6 , Pages 1197-1218 , December 2006

Imaging of musculoskeletal infections

  • Christopher J. Palestro, MD (Professor of Nuclear Medicine and Radiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Chief of Nuclear Medicine, Long Island Jewish Medical Center)

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  • Theodore T. Miller, MD (Associate Professor of Radiology, New York University School of Medicine, Chief, Division of Musculoskeletal Imaging)

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Volume 20, Issue 6 , Pages 1197-1218 , December 2006

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