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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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