Sensitivity and specificity of qualitative muscle ultrasound in assessment of suspected neuromuscular disease in childhood
✍ Scribed by Knut Brockmann; Peter Becker; Gudrun Schreiber; Karin Neubert; Edgar Brunner; Carsten Bönnemann
- Book ID
- 116792833
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 326 KB
- Volume
- 17
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0960-8966
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