Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
Volume 20, Issue 2 , Pages 315-330 , June 2006

Postoperative cognitive dysfunction: Incidence and prevention

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doi: 10.1016/j.bpa.2005.10.011

Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
Volume 20, Issue 2 , Pages 315-330 , June 2006

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