Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology
Volume 22, Issue 6 , Pages 1061-1074 , December 2008

Imaging of knee osteoarthritis

  • M.L. Davies-Tuck, B.Biomed. Sci (Hons) (Ms)
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  • F.M. Cicuttini, MBBS, FRACP, PhD (Professor)

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