Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
Volume 22, Issue 5 , Pages 687-700 , October 2008

Skeletal growth and peak bone strength

  • Qingju Wang, MD, PhD (Research Fellow)

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    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +61 3 9496 2282; Fax: +61 3 9496 3365.
  • Ego Seeman, BSc, MBBS, MD, FRACP (Professor of Medicine)

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doi: 10.1016/j.beem.2008.07.008

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