Colchicine and pseudogout
β Scribed by Isaias Spilberg; Steven Berney
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1979
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 171 KB
- Volume
- 22
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0004-3591
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