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Treatment of unruptured brain AVM in the aftermath of ARUBA and the Scottish Audit of Intracranial Vascular Malformations

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany

    Hans-Jakob Steiger

  2. Department of Neurosurgery, Hôpital Universitaire de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland

    Karl Schaller

  3. Neurochirurgische Klinik, Universitätsklinikum, Moorenstr 5, Geb. 10.54, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany

    Hans-Jakob Steiger

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Steiger, HJ., Schaller, K. Treatment of unruptured brain AVM in the aftermath of ARUBA and the Scottish Audit of Intracranial Vascular Malformations . Acta Neurochir 157, 1291–1293 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00701-015-2477-6

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