Tension viscerothorax: an important differential for tension pneumothorax
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Tension viscerothorax: an important differential for tension pneumothorax.
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عنوان ژورنال: Emergency Medicine Journal
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1472-0205,1472-0213
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2003.008367