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Application of ultrasound for muscle assessment in sarcopenia: 2020 SARCUS update: reply to the letter to the editor

SARCUS working group on behalf of the Sarcopenia Special Interest Group of the European Geriatric Medicine Society

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A Letter to the Editor to this article was published on 11 February 2021

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  1. University Center of Geriatrics, University of Antwerp, Leopoldstraat 26, 2000, Antwerp, Belgium

    Stany Perkisas, Sophie Bastijns & Anne-Marie De Cock

  2. Clinical Research Unit, CHU Brugmann, Brussels, Belgium

    Dolores Sanchez-Rodriguez

  3. Division of Public Health, Epidemiology and Health Economics, World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Public Health Aspects of Musculoskeletal Health and Aging, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium

    Dolores Sanchez-Rodriguez

  4. Rehabilitation Research Group, Geriatrics Department, Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM), Barcelona, Spain

    Dolores Sanchez-Rodriguez

  5. Department of Internal Medicine and Gerontology, Faculty of Medicine, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland

    Karolina Piotrowicz

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Perkisas, S., Bastijns, S., Sanchez-Rodriguez, D. et al. Application of ultrasound for muscle assessment in sarcopenia: 2020 SARCUS update: reply to the letter to the editor. Eur Geriatr Med 12, 427–428 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41999-021-00462-y

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