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Microsurgical fenestration of retrocerebellar cysts as a treatment for syringomyelia

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    Vino Apok

  2. Department of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, 6 Weizman Street, Tel Aviv, 64239, Israel

    Shlomi Constantini & Jonathan Roth

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Apok, V., Constantini, S. & Roth, J. Microsurgical fenestration of retrocerebellar cysts as a treatment for syringomyelia. Childs Nerv Syst 28, 653–656 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00381-011-1652-1

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