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Investigating correlation between self-reported clinical manifestation and synovial fluid and blood levels of Dickkopf-1 and sclerostin in patients with primary knee osteoarthritis

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Thomas Theologis was supported by the A.G. Leventis Foundation (2016–2018). Funding sources had no role in the design, collection, and interpretation of data, writing of the manuscript, or in the decision to submit for publication.

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  1. Orthopaedic Department, Corfu General Hospital, Corfu, Greece

    T. P. Theologis

  2. Orthopaedic Department, Evangelismos General Hospital, Athens, Greece

    P. T. Masouros

  3. Orthopaedic Clinic, Metropolitan Hospital, Neo Faliro, Piraeus, Greece

    L. Benakis

  4. Department of Biological Chemistry, Medical School, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Mikras Asias 75 Str. Goudi, 11527, Athens, Greece

    N. Nasiri-Ansari, A. G. Papavassiliou & Eva Kassi

  5. 2nd Department of Trauma and Orthopedics, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Dimitriou Ralli 21 St, Maroussi, 15124, Athens, Greece

    Vasileios S. Nikolaou

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Theologis, T.P., Masouros, P.T., Benakis, L. et al. Investigating correlation between self-reported clinical manifestation and synovial fluid and blood levels of Dickkopf-1 and sclerostin in patients with primary knee osteoarthritis. Clin Rheumatol 39, 3889–3891 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10067-020-05303-0

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