Giant cell tumors of the knee: subchondral bone integrity affects the outcome
β Scribed by Tain-Hsiung Chen; Yu-Ping Su; Wei-Ming Chen
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 118 KB
- Volume
- 29
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0341-2695
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