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Acute upper airway obstruction due to a ruptured vertebral artery caused by minor cervical trauma

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/0020-1383(92)90027-P
Acute upper airway obstruction due to a ruptured vertebral artery caused by minor cervical trauma
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      Accepted: November 4, 1991

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      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/0020-1383(92)90027-P

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      © 1992 Published by Elsevier Inc.

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