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Corresponding author: Eunju Lee, M.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Korea Cancer Center Hospital, 75, Nowon-gil (215-4 Gongneung-dong), Nowon-gu, Seoul 139-706, Korea. Tel: 82-2-970-2820, Fax: 82-2-970-2413, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http:// creativecommons...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Anaesthesia
سال: 1974
ISSN: 0003-2409,1365-2044
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1974.tb00698.x