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Evidence-based neurosurgery

Basic concepts for the appraisal and application of scientific information to patient care (Part II)

Ignatius N. Esene, Saleh S. Baeesa and Ahmed Ammar
Neurosciences Journal July 2016, 21 (3) 197-206; DOI: https://doi.org/10.17712/nsj.2016.3.20150553
Ignatius N. Esene
From the Department of Neurosurgery (Esene), Ain Shams University, the Gamma Knife Center (Esene), Nasser Institute, Cairo, Egypt, the Department of Neurosurgery (Ammar), Dammam University, Dammam, and the Division of Neurosurgery (Baeesa), Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
MD, MPH
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Saleh S. Baeesa
From the Department of Neurosurgery (Esene), Ain Shams University, the Gamma Knife Center (Esene), Nasser Institute, Cairo, Egypt, the Department of Neurosurgery (Ammar), Dammam University, Dammam, and the Division of Neurosurgery (Baeesa), Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Ahmed Ammar
From the Department of Neurosurgery (Esene), Ain Shams University, the Gamma Knife Center (Esene), Nasser Institute, Cairo, Egypt, the Department of Neurosurgery (Ammar), Dammam University, Dammam, and the Division of Neurosurgery (Baeesa), Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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vol. 21 no. 3 197-206
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.17712/nsj.2016.3.20150553
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27356649

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Neurosciences Journal
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1658-3183
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  • 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. Ignatius N. Esene, MD, MPH⇑,
  2. Saleh S. Baeesa, MBChB, FRCSC and
  3. Ahmed Ammar, MD, PhD
  1. From the Department of Neurosurgery (Esene), Ain Shams University, the Gamma Knife Center (Esene), Nasser Institute, Cairo, Egypt, the Department of Neurosurgery (Ammar), Dammam University, Dammam, and the Division of Neurosurgery (Baeesa), Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Ignatius N. Esene, Department of Neurosurgery, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. E-mail: ignatiusesene{at}yahoo.co.uk
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