Adult osteomyelitis

Orthopaedic Knowledge Update: Musculoskeletal Infection

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 135-154

  Cierny, George ^a   DiPasquale, Doreen ^a  

^a REOrthopaedics Inc   (United States)

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