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01-02-2013 | Letter to the editor - Brain Tumors

Severe hypotension, cardiac arrest, and death after intracisternal instillation of papaverine during anterior communicating artery aneurysm clipping. A case report

Authors: Forhad Hossain Chowdhury, Md. Raziul Haque

Published in: Acta Neurochirurgica | Issue 2/2013

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Title: Severe hypotension, cardiac arrest, and death after intracisternal instillation of papaverine during anterior communicating artery aneurysm clipping. A case report
Authors: Forhad Hossain Chowdhury
Md. Raziul Haque
Publication date: 01-02-2013
Publisher: Springer Vienna
Published in: Acta Neurochirurgica / Issue 2/2013
Print ISSN: 0001-6268
Electronic ISSN: 0942-0940
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00701-012-1556-1

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