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. 2017 Oct-Dec;11(4):516-517.
doi: 10.4103/sja.SJA_288_17.

Anesthetic management of craniopagus conjoined twins in a remote location

Monu Yadav  1 , Ramakrishnaprasad Chikkala  1 , Dilip Kulkarni  1 , R Gopinath  1
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Anesthetic management of craniopagus conjoined twins in a remote location

Monu Yadav et al. Saudi J Anaesth. 2017 Oct-Dec.
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Craniopagus twins
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Cerebral angiogram of V1 and V2
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