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Degenerative disc disease: genotyping, MR imaging and phenotyping

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Modic, M.T. Degenerative disc disease: genotyping, MR imaging and phenotyping. Skeletal Radiol 36, 91–93 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00256-006-0159-4

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