DIffIcUlt aIrway IN ObstEtrIc aNEsthEsIa
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Received for publication: Dec 8, 2005. Revised: Apr. 11, 2006. rEZUMat Director, Obstetric Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesiology, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, USA
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