Lumbar Axial Pain – An Algorithmic Methodology

Interventional Spine E-Book: An Algorithmic Approach

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 975-989

  Lipetz, Jason S ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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