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Anesthesiology

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-2

  Borgeat, Alain ^a  

^a ORTHOPEDIC UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BALGRIST   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; COCAINE;

ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ANESTHESIST; BRACHIAL PLEXUS ANESTHESIA; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EDITORIAL; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; NERVE BLOCK; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; TOPICAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; ITALY; METHODOLOGY; NOTE;

ANESTHESIA, CONDUCTION; HUMANS; ROME;

EID: 33746931240     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200607000-00002     Document Type: Editorial

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