Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology
Volume 23, Issue 2 , Pages 257-267 , April 2009

Becoming a musculoskeletal ultrasonographer

  • Esperanza Naredo, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Rheumatology, Hospital Severo Ochoa, Madrid, Spain
    • Ultrasound School of the Spanish Society of Rheumatology, Spain
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Dr Alvarez Sierra 4, 4°A, 28033 Madrid, Spain. Tel./Fax: +34 91 481 8000.
    • ,
  • Johannes W.J. Bijlsma, PhD (Professor)

      Affiliations

    • Department of Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands

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doi: 10.1016/j.berh.2008.12.008

Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology
Volume 23, Issue 2 , Pages 257-267 , April 2009

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