Delayed recovery from anaesthesia secondary to undiagnosed myxoedema coma: a case report
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عنوان ژورنال: Wits journal of clinical medicine
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2618-0189', '2618-0197']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18772/26180197.2021.v3n3a12