Should we admit critically ill cancer patients to the ICU?

Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 845-855

  Benoit, D D ^a   Depuydt, P O ^a   Decruyenaere, J M ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

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EID: 84892082011     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-92278-2_77     Document Type: Chapter

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