UM article top downloaded journal articles
An article of Mayke van Dort PhD at Maastricht University, in 2018 in the series orthopedic magazines in Springer has the most number of downloads, namely more than 43.000. The title of the article is ‘’Diagnosis of vertebral deformities on chest CT and DXA compared to routine lateral thoracic spine X-ray’’. For more information click here.
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