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Franziska L Hodde1, Christos I Ioannou2, Eckart Altenmüller2

  • 1Hanover Medical School, Hanover, Germany.

Muscle & Nerve
|August 24, 2019
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Keywords:
cross-sectionflexor digitorum profundus muscleflexor digitorum superficialis muscleforearm digitstopographyultrasound

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