Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
Volume 23, Issue 4 , Pages 401-409 , December 2009

Modulating postoperative insulin resistance by preoperative carbohydrate loading

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doi: 10.1016/j.bpa.2009.08.004

Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
Volume 23, Issue 4 , Pages 401-409 , December 2009

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