Cervical Myelopathy due to Tubercular Retropharyngeal Abscess
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Retropharyngeal abscess due to Gemella morbillorum.
provided in the eligible studies) for each indicator [1]. Because their meta-analysis included a large number of subjects, these authors obtained narrow confidence intervals for virtually all variables; as these confidence intervals differed from the unit, the reader is led to believe that each one is an independent indicator of AOM. However, this might not be the case, because in pooling crude...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medicine
سال: 1970
ISSN: 2075-5384,1997-9797
DOI: 10.3329/jom.v11i2.5468