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[Quality of life in patients with postoperative unilateral diaphragm relaxation]

E B Topolnitskiy1,2,3, N A Shefer1,2, A N Yunusov2

  • 1Siberian State Medical University, Tomsk, Russia.

Khirurgiia
|May 24, 2024
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diaphragm relaxationdiaphragmatic replicationquality of lifethoracoscopy

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