FRAX: Using the new fracture risk assessment tool

Contemporary Ob/Gyn

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 22-28

  Ettinger, Bruce ^a   Ettinger, Katharine M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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