Porous scaffolds for cartilage repair: Tissue reconstruction
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 381 KB
- Volume
- 7
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1369-7021
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