Cochrane in CORR ® : Joint lavage for osteoarthritis of the knee

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 472, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 22-27

  Chaudhry, Harman ^a   Madden, Kim ^a   Bhandari, Mohit ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROSCOPY; ARTICLE; CINAHL; EMBASE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JOINT IRRIGATION; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; LAVAGE; MEDLINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 84891748732     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-013-3333-8     Document Type: Article

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