2019
In Reply: Institutional Review of Mortality in 5434 Consecutive Neurosurgery Patients: Are We Improving?
Elsamadicy AA, Gottfried ON. In Reply: Institutional Review of Mortality in 5434 Consecutive Neurosurgery Patients: Are We Improving? Neurosurgery 2019, 85: e164-e164. PMID: 31197349, DOI: 10.1093/neuros/nyz110.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2017
Institutional Review of Mortality in 5434 Consecutive Neurosurgery Patients: Are We Improving?
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