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In Re: Characterization of Benign and Metastatic Vertebral Compression Fractures with Quantitative Diffusion MR Imaging
Robert V. Mulkern and Richard B. Schwartz
American Journal of Neuroradiology August 2003, 24 (7) 1489-1491;
Robert V. Mulkern
aDepartment of Radiology Children’s Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Richard B. Schwartz
aDepartment of Radiology Children’s Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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