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Erector spinae plane block RIP block or not?
Yavuz Gürkan1, Sami Kaan Coşarcan2, Can Aksu3
1Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Koç University School of medicine, Istanbul, Turkey yavuzgurkanmd@gmail.com.
Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
|November 17, 2020
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