Retrograde patient blood flow and rouleaux preventing red blood cell transfusion
β Scribed by Dunbar, Nancy M.; Marx-Wood, Cynthia R.; Maynard, Kimberly J.; Ng, David P.; Szczepiorkowski, Zbigniew M.; Dumont, Larry J.
- Book ID
- 119855728
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 294 KB
- Volume
- 52
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0372-1248
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