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Influence of Hypothermia on the Clinical and Molecular Status of a Freshwater Drowning Victim with Severe Trauma. A Case Report


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Medicine, Clinical Medicine, other, Internal Medicine, Surgery, Emergency Medicine and Intensive-Care Medicine