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Saeid Safari1, Mahsa Motavaf2, Seyed Alireza Seyed Siamdoust1

  • 1Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran.

Iranian Red Crescent Medical Journal
|January 17, 2015
PubMed
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Keywords:
AnesthesiologyHalothaneInhalation AnesthesiaLiver Injury Drug-InducedSevoflurane

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