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Back Pain (cont.)

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Author: William C. Shiel Jr., MD, FACP, FACR

Editor: Jerry Balentine, DO, FACEP

Previous contributing author and editors:

Author: William R Fraser, DO, Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine; Program Director, Department of Emergency Medicine, Doctors Hospital.

Editors: Scott H Plantz, MD, FAAEM, Research Director, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD, Senior Pharmacy Editor, eMedicine; Anthony Anker, MD, FAAEM, Attending Physician, Emergency Department, Mary Washington Hospital, Fredericksburg, VA.

REFERENCE:

Klippel, John. Primer on the Rheumatic Diseases, 13th ed. New York: Springer, 2008.


Last Editorial Review: 1/26/2011

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