Recent Trends in Soft-Tissue Infection Imaging
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Recent trends in soft-tissue infection imaging.
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عنوان ژورنال: Seminars in Nuclear Medicine
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0001-2998
DOI: 10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2008.10.005