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Hypercapnia and severe hyperkalemia following robot-assisted thyroid surgery: A case report
Chang Xu1, Zhifang Wu1, Anqi Yin1
1Department of Anesthesiology, Jinling Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.
Asian Journal of Surgery
|February 2, 2023
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