A Summary of Our Recent Evidence-based Works on Radiographic Diagnostics of Prevalent Osteoporotic Vertebral Fracture in Older Men and Women

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Journal Quant Imaging Med Surg

Specialty Radiology

Date 2023 Mar 14

PMID 36915360

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Yi Xiang J Wang

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