The GALA trial: answers it gives, answers it does not

The Lancet

Volumn 372, Issue 9656, 2008, Pages 2092-2093

  Guay, Joanne ^a  

^a MAISONNEUVE ROSEMONT HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERY CLAMP; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CLAMP; CLINICAL TRIAL; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 57649171728     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61700-6     Document Type: Note

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