Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis in the third millennium: is there (yet) cause for concern?

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  • Florindo Verdone
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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The Journal of rheumatology

دوره 37 6  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2010