Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology
Volume 22, Issue 4 , Pages 693-708 , August 2008

Osteoporosis in developing countries

  • Rohini Handa, MD, DNB, FAMS, FICP, FACR, FRCP (Glasgow) (Professor of Medicine)

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    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +91 11 2659 4993; Fax: +91 11 2658 8663.
  • Asgar Ali Kalla, MBChB (UCT), FCP (SA), FRCP (Lon), MD (UCT) (Professor of Rheumatology)
  • Ghassan Maalouf, MD (Professor of Clinical Orthopaedics Surgery, and Chairman of the Musculo-Skeletal Program)

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