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Shepler, J., Kattula, A., Arndt, G. (2017). Regional Anesthesia in the Presence of Neurologic Disease. In: Finucane, B., Tsui, B. (eds) Complications of Regional Anesthesia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49386-2_6

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