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Limb tourniquet causes thermal perturbations under various types of anesthesia: a report of seven cases

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, 812-82, Fukuoka, Japan

    Takashi Akata, Tomoo Kanna, Kaoru Izumi, Taro Nagata & Shosuke Takahashi

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Akata, T., Kanna, T., Izumi, K. et al. Limb tourniquet causes thermal perturbations under various types of anesthesia: a report of seven cases. J Anesth 11, 141–146 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02480077

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