Key elements in the modern surgical treatment of metastatic brain tumors are a firm grasp of criteria for selection of proper surgical candidates and a thorough grounding in the surgical approaches to, and the anatomy of, cerebral metastases. It is important to realize that the presence of multiple
Treatment of metastatic brain tumors
โ Scribed by Soichiro Shibui
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 168 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1341-9625
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