Treating chronic knee pain with acupuncture.

نویسندگان

  • Lixing Lao
  • Wing-Fai Yeung
چکیده

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • JAMA

دوره 313 6  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2015