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To make the correct diagnosis for a condition of the shoulder as in other areas of medicine is mostly based on the taking of an accurate and relevant history. Indeed the old maxim that once the history is complete, a treating clinician should have at the very least a differential diagnosis which is then clarified by examination or investigation is very true.
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Trail, I.A. (2017). The Conventional Examination. In: Monga, P., Funk, L. (eds) Diagnostic Clusters in Shoulder Conditions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57334-2_2
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