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01-08-2018 | Editorial - EANS Affairs

Peripheral nerve surgery: the road less traveled

Author: Lukas Rasulić

Published in: Acta Neurochirurgica | Issue 8/2018

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I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I –

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

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Title: Peripheral nerve surgery: the road less traveled
Author: Lukas Rasulić
Publication date: 01-08-2018
Publisher: Springer Vienna
Published in: Acta Neurochirurgica / Issue 8/2018
Print ISSN: 0001-6268
Electronic ISSN: 0942-0940
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00701-018-3569-x

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