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F Asato1, A Kanai

  • 1Department of Anesthesiology, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan. fasato@med.kitasato-u.ac.jp

Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia = Journal Canadien D'Anesthesie
|May 8, 2001
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