Anesthesia for Down's syndrome with atlantoaxial instability using laryngeal mask airway.

J Anesth

Department of Anesthesiology, Sapporo Medical University, School of Medicine, South-1, West-16, Chuoku, 060, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.

Published: June 1994

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