Thoracic wall blocks in cardiac and thoracic procedures: expanding frontiers for perioperative regional analgesia
Marcello Fonseca Salgado-Filho, Luiz Guilherme Villares da Costa, Eric Benedet Lineburger, Bruno Francisco de Freitas Tonelotto
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