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Awake craniotomy

A patient’s perspective

Khalid M. Bajunaid and Abdulrazag M. Ajlan
Neurosciences Journal July 2015, 20 (3) 248-252; DOI: https://doi.org/10.17712/nsj.2015.3.20140548
Khalid M. Bajunaid
From the Department of Neurosurgery (Bajunaid), Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the Department of Neurosurgery (Ajlan), Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, the Division of Neurosurgery (Bajunaid), Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, and the Division of Neurosurgery (Ajlan), Faculty of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Abdulrazag M. Ajlan
From the Department of Neurosurgery (Bajunaid), Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the Department of Neurosurgery (Ajlan), Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, the Division of Neurosurgery (Bajunaid), Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, and the Division of Neurosurgery (Ajlan), Faculty of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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vol. 20 no. 3 248-252
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.17712/nsj.2015.3.20140548
PubMed 
26166593

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1658-3183
History 
  • Received September 3, 2014
  • Accepted February 23, 2015
  • Published online November 13, 2020.

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Copyright: © Neurosciences Neurosciences is an Open Access journal and articles published are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (CC BY-NC). Readers may copy, distribute, and display the work for non-commercial purposes with the proper citation of the original work.

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  1. Khalid M. Bajunaid, MBBS⇑ and
  2. Abdulrazag M. Ajlan, MBBS, FRCSC
  1. From the Department of Neurosurgery (Bajunaid), Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the Department of Neurosurgery (Ajlan), Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, the Division of Neurosurgery (Bajunaid), Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, and the Division of Neurosurgery (Ajlan), Faculty of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Khalid M. Bajunaid, Department of Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University, 3801 Rue University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2B4, Canada. E-mail: Dr.Bajunaid{at}gmail.com
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