Imaging of articular cartilage: Current concepts

Joints

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 137-140

  Ronga, Mario ^a   Angeretti, Gloria ^a   Ferraro, Sergio ^a   De Falco, Giovanni ^a   Genovese, Eugenio A ^b   Cherubino, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Articular cartilage; Cartilage repair; Contrast; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

EID: 84979085282     PISSN: 22824324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11138/jts/2014.2.3.137     Document Type: Review

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