Ventriculostomy and intracranial pressure monitoring: In search of a 0% infection rate
โ Scribed by Mary Kay Bader; Linda Littlejohns; Sylvain Palmer
- Book ID
- 117319067
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 611 KB
- Volume
- 24
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1527-3288
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