Brain arrest, cardiac arrest and uncertainties in defining death
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Brain arrest, cardiac arrest and uncertainties in defining death.
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عنوان ژورنال: Jornal de Pediatria
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0021-7557
DOI: 10.2223/jped.1607