Airway Adventures of Airtraq: Use of Airtraq Optical Laryngoscope with Adaptor in Infants with Obstructive Hydrocephalus Posted for Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy
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Endoscopic third ventriculostomy for obstructive hydrocephalus.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neuroanaesthesiology and Critical Care
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2348-0548,2348-926X
DOI: 10.1055/s-0040-1701800