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Neonatal transcutaneous arterial oxygen saturation monitoring

P K Lewallen1, M C Mammel, J M Coleman

  • 1Infant Pulmonary Research Center, Children's Hospital of St. Paul, MN 55102.

Journal of Perinatology : Official Journal of the California Perinatal Association
|January 1, 1987
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