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Complications in Craniovertebral Junction Instrumentation: Hardware Removal Can Be Associated with Long-Lasting Stability. Personal Experience

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Trends in Reconstructive Neurosurgery

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  1. Institute of Neurosurgery, Medical School, Catholic University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Massimiliano Visocchi, Pier Paolo Mattogno & Francesco Signorelli

  2. Department of Neurosurgery, XinHua Hospital, Shanghai JiaoTong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200092, China

    Jun Zhong

  3. Department of Experimental Biomedicine and Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine, Neurosurgical Clinic, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

    Gerardo Iacopino

  4. Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Neurosciences, Policlinico “G. Rodolico” University Hospital, Catania, Italy

    Giuseppe Barbagallo

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    Massimiliano Visocchi

  2. Dept. of Neurosurgery, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

    H. Maximilian Mehdorn

  3. Department of Neurological Surgery, Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan

    Yoichi Katayama

  4. Medical Faculty University of Münster, Münster, Germany

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Visocchi, M., Mattogno, P.P., Signorelli, F., Zhong, J., Iacopino, G., Barbagallo, G. (2017). Complications in Craniovertebral Junction Instrumentation: Hardware Removal Can Be Associated with Long-Lasting Stability. Personal Experience. In: Visocchi, M., Mehdorn, H.M., Katayama, Y., von Wild, K.R.H. (eds) Trends in Reconstructive Neurosurgery. Acta Neurochirurgica Supplement, vol 124. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39546-3_29

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