Lower-extremity edema: Evaluation and diagnosis

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Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 118-124

  Terry, Maria ^a   O'Brien, Sean P ^a   Kerstein, Morris D ^a  

^a ALLEGHENY UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (United States)

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