Fibromyalgia and Complementary and Alternative Medicine
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Non-pharmacological therapy and complementary and alternative medicine in fibromyalgia.
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1 Department of Internal and Integrative Medicine, Kliniken Essen-Mitte, Faculty of Medicine, University of Duisburg-Essen, 45276 Essen, Germany 2Department of Internal Medicine 1, Klinikum Saarbrücken, 66119 Saarbrücken, Germany 3Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität München, 81865 München, Germany 4 Service de Médecine Interne et Thérapeutique, Centre ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Mayo Clinic Proceedings
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0025-6196
DOI: 10.1016/s0025-6196(11)61544-9