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Fractures in polyvinyl chloride tracheostomy tubes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

Ole Viborg Jensen
Affiliation:
From the departments of Anaesthesiology and Oto-Rhino-Laryngology. University Hospital of Aarhus, DK 8000 Aarhus C., Denmark.
Ulrik Pedersen*
Affiliation:
From the departments of Anaesthesiology and Oto-Rhino-Laryngology. University Hospital of Aarhus, DK 8000 Aarhus C., Denmark.
*
M.D. Ulrik Pedersen, Department of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, University Hospital of Aarhus, DK 8000 Aarhus C.

Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1988

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