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Child's Nervous System
Published in: Child's Nervous System 3/2020

01-03-2020 | Care | Cover Editorial

Disparity in pediatric neurosurgery provision of care: an illustration

Author: Shlomi Constantini

Published in: Child's Nervous System | Issue 3/2020

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The worldwide disparity in the provision of surgical care in general [1], and neurosurgery in particular, is an accepted reality that has been well researched and documented in a recent series of papers by Dewan, et al. in Neurosurgical Focus and the Journal of Neurosurgery [2, 3]. …
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Title
Disparity in pediatric neurosurgery provision of care: an illustration
Author
Shlomi Constantini
Publication date
01-03-2020
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Child's Nervous System / Issue 3/2020
Print ISSN: 0256-7040
Electronic ISSN: 1433-0350
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00381-019-04374-y

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