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Management of veins during microvascular decompression for idiopathic trigeminal neuralgia

Xu Zhao1, Shuai Hao2, Minqing Wang1

  • 1a Department of Neurosurgery , The Second Hospital of Shandong University , Jinan , Shandong Province , China.

British Journal of Neurosurgery
|May 25, 2018
PubMed
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Keywords:
Trigeminal neuralgiamicrovascular decompressionoffending vesselvein

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