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Knee Arthrocentesis in Adults
Published on: February 25, 2022
Knee pain in a 9-year-old girl
Eric R Henderson1, Rebecca A Pohlmann, Lisa A Teot
1Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, One Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, NH, 03756, USA, eric.r.henderson@gmail.com.
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
|July 3, 2013
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