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The intensive care support of patients with malignancy: do everything that can be done

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    Élie Azoulay

  2. Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minn., USA

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Azoulay, É., Afessa, B. The intensive care support of patients with malignancy: do everything that can be done. Intensive Care Med 32, 3–5 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-005-2835-6

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