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Microvascular Decompression: Salient Surgical Principles and Technical Nuances

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Bríd M Reale¹, Damien Ryan, Tim Scanlon

¹Emergency Department, University Hospital Limerick, , Dooradoyle, Limerick, Ireland.

Emergency Medicine Journal : EMJ

|January 26, 2013

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Keywords:

Accidental Falls Emergency Department Management Paediatric Injury Trauma, Head x-ray

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