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[Mortality and prognostic indexes in obese patients admitted to the intensive care unit]

R Rivera-Fernández1, R Díaz-Contreras, M J Chavero-Magro

  • 1Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos, C. R. Traumatología, Hospital Virgen de las Nieves.,Granada, España. ricardo.rivera.sspa@juntadeandalucia.es

Medicina Intensiva
|June 6, 2006
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