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Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy and Pineal Biopsy from a Single Entry Point
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[Diagnostic image (387). A man with diminished consciousness after a trepanation]
A M M de Kotsopoulos1, B van de Pol
1St. Elisabeth Ziekenhuis, afd. Intensive Care, Postbus 90.151, 5000 LC Tilburg. a.kotsopoulos@elisabeth.nl
Nederlands Tijdschrift Voor Geneeskunde
|September 24, 2008
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An 80-year-old man presented with a tension pneumocephalus after burr-hole drainage of a subdural haematoma.
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