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Thrombectomy for Patients With Large Infarct Core in Practice: Where Should the Pendulum Swing?
Thabele M Leslie-Mazwi1, Dorothea Altschul2, Claus Z Simonsen3
1Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston (T.M.L.-M.).
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|September 2, 2021
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