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Assessing Risk Factors for Intubation Difficulty in Thyroid Surgical Patients

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Shanxi Province Tumor Hospital, Taiyuan, China

    Yi Liu

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Plastic Surgery Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, 33 Ba-Da-Chu Road, Shi-Jing-Shan District, Beijing, 100144, China

    Fu-Shan Xue & Gui-Zhen Yang

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Liu, Y., Xue, FS. & Yang, GZ. Assessing Risk Factors for Intubation Difficulty in Thyroid Surgical Patients. World J Surg 42, 3454–3455 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00268-018-4517-x

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