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Acute upper airway obstruction due to myxoedema and upper airway abnormalities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

Nador Stahl*
Affiliation:
E.N.T. Department, Soroka University Hospital, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev- P.O.B. 151, Beer Sheva, Israel.
Alberto Leiberman
Affiliation:
E.N.T. Department, Soroka University Hospital, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev- P.O.B. 151, Beer Sheva, Israel.
*
Department of E.N.T., Soroka University Center, P.O.B. 151, Beer Sheva, Israel.

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Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1988

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