Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
Volume 22, Issue 4 , Pages 627-644 , December 2008

Physiology of Thermoregulation

  • Andrea Kurz, M.D. (Professor and Vice Chair)

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doi: 10.1016/j.bpa.2008.06.004

Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
Volume 22, Issue 4 , Pages 627-644 , December 2008

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