Upper Airway Retraction: New and Old Laryngoscope Blades

Benumof and Hagberg's Airway Management

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 508-535

  Levitan, Richard M ^a   Hagberg, Carin A ^b  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-1-4377-2764-7.00024-5     Document Type: Chapter

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