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Volume 92, Issue 3 , Pages 297-312 , September 2010

Perioperative Care of the Morbidly Obese Patient in the Lithotomy Position

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Editor's note: Patient lifts were used as stirrups in this article; this represents an off-label use of these medical devices.

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