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Pectoral nerve block as the sole anesthetic technique for a modified radical mastectomy in a comorbid patient

Sehend Debbag and Fatma Sarıcaoğlu
Saudi Medical Journal December 2019, 40 (12) 1285-1289; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2019.12.24644
Sehend Debbag
From the Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
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