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Test occlusion under monitoring of motor-evoked potentials for a giant distal anterior cerebral artery aneurysm: letter to the editor

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Acknowledgement

We thank Ichiro Sasaki, MT, and Takahito Matsushita, MT, for collecting the neurophysiological monitoring data.

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital, 2-1-1 Minatojima-Minamimachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe, 650-0047, Japan

    Kampei Shimizu, Shoichi Tani, Hirotoshi Imamura & Nobuyuki Sakai

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Shimizu, K., Tani, S., Imamura, H. et al. Test occlusion under monitoring of motor-evoked potentials for a giant distal anterior cerebral artery aneurysm: letter to the editor. Acta Neurochir 157, 1841–1842 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00701-015-2570-x

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