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Airway management in a patient with pseudoankylosis of the mandible following frontotemporal craniotomy

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Kawaguchi, M., Sakamoto, T., Ohnishi, H. et al. Airway management in a patient with pseudoankylosis of the mandible following frontotemporal craniotomy. J Anesth 8, 346–348 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02514664

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