Aging with spinal cord injury

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America - Tập 16 Số 1 - Trang 129-161 - 2005
Jaishree Capoor1, Adam Stein1
1Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1425 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10029, USA

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