Annals of Diagnostic Pathology
Volume 10, Issue 1 , Pages 24-27 , February 2006

Bone manifestations of actinomycosis

  • Bruce Rothschild, MD

      Affiliations

    • Arthritis Center of Northeast Ohio, Youngstown, OH 44512, USA
    • Department of Internal Medicine, Northeast Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Rootstown, OH 44272, USA
    • Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Akron, Akron, OH 44242, USA
    • Department of Earth Sciences, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Youngstown, OH 44512, USA. Tel.: +1 330 783 5900; fax: +1 330 783 5350.
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  • Virginia Naples, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biology, Northern Illinois University, De Kalb, IL 60115, USA
    • ,
  • Lenore Barbian, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC 20306-6000, USA

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PII: S1092-9134(05)00157-7

doi: 10.1016/j.anndiagpath.2005.09.017

Annals of Diagnostic Pathology
Volume 10, Issue 1 , Pages 24-27 , February 2006

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