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. 1998 Dec;32(4):344–345. doi: 10.1136/bjsm.32.4.344

Dysbaric osteonecrosis of the shoulder in a sport scuba diver

P Wilmshurst, K Ross
PMCID: PMC1756113  PMID: 9865412

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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