Radiography
Volume 16, Issue 2 , Pages 154-159 , May 2010

Diagnostic ultrasound use in physiotherapy, emergency medicine, and anaesthesiology

Received 23 July 2009 ,Revised 10 December 2009 ,Accepted 20 December 2009.

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