Sudden death after air travel in a patient with colloid cyst
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Sudden death in a patient with a third ventricle colloid cyst.
1 Neurosurgical Department, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York NY, USA; 2 Neurosurgical Department, Restauração Hospital, Recife PE, Brazil; 3 Neurosurgical Department, Democritus University of Thrace Medical School, Alexandroupolis, Greece. Correspondence: Danilo Silva; Weill Cornell Medical College, New York NY, USA; Department of Neurological Surgery; Skull base fellow; 124 west 60th st...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neurology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0028-3878,1526-632X
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000221728.37262.7c