Musculoskeletal Pain in Female Asylum Seekers and Hypovitaminosis D3

Overview

Journal BMJ

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2004 Jul 20

PMID 15258072

Citations 25

Authors

Gabrielle de Torrente de la Jara

Alain Pecoud

Bernard Favrat

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