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Microvascular Decompression: Salient Surgical Principles and Technical Nuances
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Microvascular Decompression: Salient Surgical Principles and Technical Nuances

Published on: July 5, 2011

Vascular compression: cause of trigeminal neuralgia

P G Petty, R Southby, K Siu

    The Medical Journal of Australia
    |February 23, 1980
    PubMed

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