Inert Gas Exchange and Bubbles

Bove and Davis' Diving Medicine: Fourth Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 53-76

  Vann, Richard D ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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