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tracking along the "cantor" surface ??

Posted By: Sheryl on 2005-08-03
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the patient is status post TMA.  In discussing the wound healing, she says:  There is a small amound of tracking along the "canta", "canter" "cantor" surface.  Ideas?


All I can find is a "Cantor" tube, and that's not it.  TIA




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