Diagnostic Accuracy of Magnetic Resonance Arthrography to Assess Biceps Pathologies Prior to Rotator Cuff Repair: Response to the Letter to the Editor

Overview

Journal Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc

Publisher Wiley

Specialties Emergency Medicine
General Surgery
Orthopedics

Date 2019 Nov 28

PMID 31773204

Authors

Elise Loock

Mo Saffarini

Amaury DUtruy

Aude Michelet

Simon Bertiaux

Olivier Courage

Affiliations

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