The Pattern of Joint Involvement in Hands with Arthritis at the Base of the Thumb

Abstract

A study of the incidence and grading of osteoarthritis in all the other thirty-two joints in the hands of twenty-one patients with osteoarthritis of the carpometacarpal joint of the thumb.

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