Botulinum Toxin A Treatment of Cricopharyngeal Dysphagia After Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
✍ Scribed by Eike Krause; Jörg Schirra; Robert Gürkov
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 362 KB
- Volume
- 23
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0179-051X
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