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Letter to the editor: “Microsurgical suturing assessment scores: a systematic review”

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  1. Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Gdansk, Marii Skłodowskiej- Curie 3a, 80-210, Gdansk, Poland

    Piotr Stogowski & Karolina Anuszkiewicz

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Stogowski, P., Anuszkiewicz, K. Letter to the editor: “Microsurgical suturing assessment scores: a systematic review”. Neurosurg Rev 45, 1809–1810 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10143-021-01688-x

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