Cauda equina syndrome after spinal tetracaine: electromyographic evaluation--20 years follow-up.

Anesthesiology

Department of Anesthesiology, Medical School Botucatu, São Paulo State University, Universidade Estuadal Paulista, Brazil.

Published: November 2001

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