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Brain tumors incidences and a retrospective clinical analysis from a tertiary hospital in India

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The authors thank department of pathology (Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences) for assistance with histopathological staining and patient registry, DBT for student fellowship, DST (No SB/EMEQ-257/2013) and UPE (UH/UGC/UPE-2 Interface studies/Research Projects/B1.4) for lab funding.

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    Ravindra Pramod Deshpande, Deepak Babu & Phanithi Prakash Babu

  2. Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS), Secunderabad, Telangana, India

    Manas Panigrahi & Y. B. V. K. Chandra Sekhar

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Deshpande, R.P., Babu, D., Panigrahi, M. et al. Brain tumors incidences and a retrospective clinical analysis from a tertiary hospital in India. J Neurooncol 129, 383–387 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11060-016-2183-0

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