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Anesthesia for laparoscopic cholecystectomy in an elderly patient with emphysematous bullae—combined general and epidural anesthesia with spontaneous respiration and abdominal wall-left method

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Matsushiro General Hospital, 183 Matsushiro, 381-12, Nagano, Japan

    Yoshito Nagashima & Song H. Kim

  2. Department of Anesthesiology and Resuscitology, Shinshu University School of Medicine, 3-1-1 Asahi, 390, Matsumoto, Japan

    Tetsutaro Otagiri

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Nagashima, Y., Kim, S.H. & Otagiri, T. Anesthesia for laparoscopic cholecystectomy in an elderly patient with emphysematous bullae—combined general and epidural anesthesia with spontaneous respiration and abdominal wall-left method. J Anesth 9, 348–350 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02479950

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