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Volume 16, Issue 3 , Pages 30-31 , September 2008

Regional Femoral Nerve Block Combined with Local Anaesthesia in Day Surgery for Varicose Veins

  • E. Fiutek

      Affiliations

    • Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Wolnosci 303/5 41-800, Zabrze, Poland. Tel.: +48 607913512; fax: +48 32 2714219.
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  • Z. Fiutek

      Affiliations

    • Private Praxis, Zabrze, Poland

Received 3 March 2008 ,Accepted 26 August 2008.

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PII: S1533-3167(08)00021-6

doi: 10.1016/j.ejvsextra.2008.08.008

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