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01-04-2016 | Letter to the Editor

Centralized services and large patient volumes are clinical necessities for a better outcome in pediatric brain tumors

Author: Ibrahim Qaddoumi

Published in: Child's Nervous System | Issue 4/2016

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Title: Centralized services and large patient volumes are clinical necessities for a better outcome in pediatric brain tumors
Author: Ibrahim Qaddoumi
Publication date: 01-04-2016
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Child's Nervous System / Issue 4/2016
Print ISSN: 0256-7040
Electronic ISSN: 1433-0350
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00381-016-3028-z

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