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Case Reports
. 1998 Dec;32(4):344-5.
doi: 10.1136/bjsm.32.4.344.

Dysbaric osteonecrosis of the shoulder in a sport scuba diver

P Wilmshurst  1 , K Ross
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Case Reports

Dysbaric osteonecrosis of the shoulder in a sport scuba diver

P Wilmshurst et al. Br J Sports Med. 1998 Dec.

Abstract

The previously unreported occurrence of dysbaric osteonecrosis in an amateur sport scuba diver who had no other identified cause of avascular bone necrosis is described.

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