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[Prognostic value of low back pain history with reference to outcome of lumber intervertebral disk displacement

L Dubs1

  • 1Praxis für Orthopädische Chirurgie und Nutzenforschung am Winterhurer Institut für Gesundheitsökonomie. dubs.luzi@bluewin.ch

Praxis
|January 20, 2005
PubMed
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