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    Zhaosheng Jin, Vincent Bargnes, Alexandra Tsivitis, Jonathan B. Oster & Jun Lin

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Jin, Z., Bargnes, V., Tsivitis, A., Oster, J.B., Lin, J. (2023). Palliative Care Surgery of Cancer Patients. In: Huang, J., Huang, J., Liu, H. (eds) Anesthesia for Oncological Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50977-3_71

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