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Sheng-Tzung Tsai1, Hsiang-Yi Hung, Tsung-Cheng Hsieh

  • 1Department of Neurosurgery, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan; Department of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan.

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery
|August 7, 2013
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Deep brain stimulationSubthalamic nucleusYoung onset Parkinson's disease

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