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Migration of the distal catheter of the ventriculoperitoneal shunt in hydrocephalus patients

Mohammed Z. Allouh, Mohammed M. Al Barbarawi, Mohammed H. Hiasat and Bashar A. Abuzayed
Neurosciences Journal October 2017, 22 (4) 298-302; DOI: https://doi.org/10.17712/nsj.2017.4.20170137
Mohammed Z. Allouh
From the Department of Anatomy (Allouh), Division of Neurosurgery (Al Barbarawi, Hiasat), Department of Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, Jordan University of Science & Technology, and from Division of Neurosurgery (Abuzayed), Department of Neuroscience, King Abdullah University Hospital, Irbid, Jordan
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Mohammed M. Al Barbarawi
From the Department of Anatomy (Allouh), Division of Neurosurgery (Al Barbarawi, Hiasat), Department of Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, Jordan University of Science & Technology, and from Division of Neurosurgery (Abuzayed), Department of Neuroscience, King Abdullah University Hospital, Irbid, Jordan
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Mohammed H. Hiasat
From the Department of Anatomy (Allouh), Division of Neurosurgery (Al Barbarawi, Hiasat), Department of Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, Jordan University of Science & Technology, and from Division of Neurosurgery (Abuzayed), Department of Neuroscience, King Abdullah University Hospital, Irbid, Jordan
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Bashar A. Abuzayed
From the Department of Anatomy (Allouh), Division of Neurosurgery (Al Barbarawi, Hiasat), Department of Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, Jordan University of Science & Technology, and from Division of Neurosurgery (Abuzayed), Department of Neuroscience, King Abdullah University Hospital, Irbid, Jordan
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Mohammed Z. Allouh, Mohammed M. Al Barbarawi, Mohammed H. Hiasat, Bashar A. Abuzayed
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