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Case Report: Ultrasound Reveals Cause of Post-Arthroplasty Knee Pain

Mark H. Greenberg, MD, RMSK, RhMSUS, Elijah Mitcham, MD, Prem Patel, James W. Fant Jr., MD, & Frank R. Voss, MD  |  Issue: April 2020  |  

10(3):2364–2368.

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