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Anaesthesia for total hip replacement in Gaucher's disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 January 2006

A. Ioscovich
Affiliation:
Department of Anesthesiology, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel Department of Anesthesia, Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre and the University of Toronto, Canada, USA
A. Briskin
Affiliation:
Department of Anesthesiology, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel Department of Anesthesia, Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre and the University of Toronto, Canada, USA
E. Lebel
Affiliation:
Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
M. Itzchaki
Affiliation:
Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
A. Zimran
Affiliation:
Gaucher Clinic, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
D. Elstein
Affiliation:
Gaucher Clinic, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
S. Halpern
Affiliation:
Department of Anaesthesia, Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre and the University of Toronto, Canada, USA
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© 2006 European Society of Anaesthesiology

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