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Perioperative lumbar drain utilization in transsphenoidal pituitary resection

Shatha Alharbi, Griffith Harsh and Abdulrazag Ajlan
Neurosciences Journal January 2018, 23 (1) 46-51; DOI: https://doi.org/10.17712/nsj.2018.1.20170136
Shatha Alharbi
from the Department of Neurosurgery (Alharbi), King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, and from the Department of Surgery and Department of Neurosurgery (Ajlan), College of Medicine, King Saud University, and from the Department of Neurosurgery (Harsh, Ajlan), Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
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Griffith Harsh
from the Department of Neurosurgery (Alharbi), King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, and from the Department of Surgery and Department of Neurosurgery (Ajlan), College of Medicine, King Saud University, and from the Department of Neurosurgery (Harsh, Ajlan), Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
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Abdulrazag Ajlan
from the Department of Neurosurgery (Alharbi), King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, and from the Department of Surgery and Department of Neurosurgery (Ajlan), College of Medicine, King Saud University, and from the Department of Neurosurgery (Harsh, Ajlan), Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
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vol. 23 no. 1 46-51
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.17712/nsj.2018.1.20170136
PubMed 
29455221

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1658-3183
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  • Received February 28, 2017
  • Accepted November 1, 2017
  • 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. Shatha Alharbi, MBBS⇑,
  2. Griffith Harsh, MD and
  3. Abdulrazag Ajlan, FRCS, MSc
  1. from the Department of Neurosurgery (Alharbi), King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, and from the Department of Surgery and Department of Neurosurgery (Ajlan), College of Medicine, King Saud University, and from the Department of Neurosurgery (Harsh, Ajlan), Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Shatha Alharbi, Department of Neurosurgery, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: Shatha.k.alharbi{at}gmail.com
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