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Samuel Katsuyuki Shinjo1, Eduardo Ferreira Borba, Célio Roberto Gonçalves

  • 1Division of Rheumatology, Hospital das Clinicas, School of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. samuel.shinjo@gmail.com

Journal of Clinical Rheumatology : Practical Reports on Rheumatic & Musculoskeletal Diseases
|June 7, 2007
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