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Suspected cerebral foreign body granuloma following endovascular treatment of intracranial aneurysm: imaging features

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    David Minks & Wilhelm Küker

  2. Nuffield Department of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Dennis Briley, Ursula Schulz & Wilhelm Küker

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Minks, D., Briley, D., Schulz, U. et al. Suspected cerebral foreign body granuloma following endovascular treatment of intracranial aneurysm: imaging features. Neuroradiology 57, 71–73 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00234-014-1440-1

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