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Research Article

Reliability of mercury-in-silastic strain gauge plethysmography curve reading: Influence of clinical clues and observer variation

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Pages 380-386 | Received 21 Dec 2012, Accepted 11 Mar 2013, Published online: 16 Apr 2013

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