Evidence Supporting Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy for Acute and Chronic Soft Tissue Wounds

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Vlado Antonic, MS; Rainer Mittermayr, MD; Wolfgang Schaden, MD; Alexander Stojadinovic, MD
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