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Knuckle Cracking and Hand Osteoarthritis

Kevin deWeber, Mariusz Olszewski and Rebecca Ortolano
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine March 2011, 24 (2) 169-174; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2011.02.100156
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