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Adult and Pediatric Porcine Model of Acute Volume Overload
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Adult and Pediatric Porcine Model of Acute Volume Overload

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A common question revisited: can differences in clinical severity explain the volume-outcome relationship?

Ryan P Merkow, Karl Y Bilimoria

    Surgery
    |April 21, 2010
    PubMed
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