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J Anal Res Clin Med. 2015;3(3): 170-177. doi: 10.15171/jarcm.2015.027

Original Research

Reliability and validity of Persian version of Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis index in knee osteoarthritis

Bina Eftekhar-Sadat ¹, Seyyed Hasan Niknejad-Hosseyni ¹, Arash Babaei-Ghazani ², Vahideh Toopchizadeh ¹ * , Homayoun Sadeghi ³

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