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Focused Update: Perioperative Management of Jehovah’s Witness Patients in Relation to Their Refusal of Allogeneic Blood Transfusion
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Japan Society of Blood Transfusion
سال: 1999
ISSN: 1883-8383,0546-1448
DOI: 10.3925/jjtc1958.45.425