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  1. Département d’Anesthésie et Réanimation, Groupe Hospitalier et Université Paris Sud, le Kremlin Bicêtre, Orsay, France

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

    Brendan T. Finucane

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA

    Ban C.H. Tsui

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Benhamou, D. (2017). France: Regional Anesthesia Morbidity Study. In: Finucane, B., Tsui, B. (eds) Complications of Regional Anesthesia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49386-2_29

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