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MRI-detected double low-intensity bands in osteonecrosis of the femoral head

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported in part by a Grant-in-Aid in Scientific Research (no. 21591948) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, a Research Grant for Intractable Diseases from the Ministry of Health and Welfare of Japan, and a grant from the Takeda Science Foundation.

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    Ryosuke Yamaguchi, Takuaki Yamamoto, Goro Motomura, Satoshi Ikemura & Yukihide Iwamoto

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Yamaguchi, R., Yamamoto, T., Motomura, G. et al. MRI-detected double low-intensity bands in osteonecrosis of the femoral head. J Orthop Sci 16, 471–475 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00776-011-0059-x

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