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Rigid videolaryngoscope for difficult intubation caused by mandibular tori

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  1. Department of Emergency and Disaster Medicine, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, 5 Zaifu-cho, Hirosaki, Aomori, 036-8562, Japan

    Hitoshi Yoshida

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan

    Masahiro Sawada, Norikazu Takada, Tetsuya Kushikata & Kazuyoshi Hirota

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Yoshida, H., Sawada, M., Takada, N. et al. Rigid videolaryngoscope for difficult intubation caused by mandibular tori. J Anesth 25, 473–474 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00540-011-1128-1

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