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General anesthesia for cesarean section in a parturient with quintuplet pregnancy

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  1. Toshimitsu Kitajima

    Present address: Department of Anesthesiology, Dokkyo University School of Medicine, 880 Kitakobayashi, Mibumachi, Shimotsuga-gun, 321-02, Tochigi, Japan

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  1. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dokkyo University School of Medicine, Tochigi-ken, Japan

    Toshimitsu Kitajima, Hidehito Miyamoto, Tetsuo Takiguchi, Hiromaru Ogata & Kaoru Masaoka

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Dokkyo University School of Medicine, 880 Kitakobayashi, Mibumachi, Shimotsuga-gun, 321-02, Tochigi, Japan

    Hidehito Miyamoto, Tetsuo Takiguchi, Hiromaru Ogata & Kaoru Masaoka

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Kitajima, T., Miyamoto, H., Takiguchi, T. et al. General anesthesia for cesarean section in a parturient with quintuplet pregnancy. J Anesth 7, 240–244 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/s0054030070240

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