Ultrasound guided rectus sheath block - analgesia for abdominal surgery

Update in Anaesthesia

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 12-17

  Webster, Katrina ^a  

^a ROYAL HOBART HOSPITAL   (Australia)

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