Looking through the 'window of opportunity': Is there a new paradigm of podiatry care on the horizon in early rheumatoid arthritis?

Journal of Foot and Ankle Research

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Woodburn, James ^a   Hennessy, Kym ^a   Steultjens, Martijn P M ^a   McInnes, Iain B ^b   Turner, Deborah E ^a  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 79952284635     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17571146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1757-1146-3-8     Document Type: Note

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