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Justification criteria for vertebral fractures: year 2012 revision

Satoshi Mori1, Satoshi Soen, Hiroshi Hagino

  • 1Department of Bone and Joint Surgery, Seirei Hamamatsu General Hospital, Sumiyoshi 2-12-12, Naka-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan. stmori@sis.seirei.or.jp

Journal of Bone and Mineral Metabolism
|April 27, 2013
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