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Neuromuscular blockade at the orbicularis oculi muscle in a patient with myasthenia gravis

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Nihon University School of Medicine, 30-1, Oyaguchi Kamimachi, Itabashi-Ku, Tokyo, 173-8610, Japan

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Takahiro Suzuki has received speaker fees from MSD Inc., Japan.

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Yamamoto, M., Suzuki, T. Neuromuscular blockade at the orbicularis oculi muscle in a patient with myasthenia gravis. J Clin Monit Comput 34, 1385–1386 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10877-019-00422-9

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