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Subcutaneous cervical emphysema associated with mastoid fracture

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  1. Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Department of Neurosurgery, Seoul National University Children’s Hospital & Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea

    Ji Yeoun Lee & Kyu-Chang Wang

  2. Regional Centre of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals of Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA

    John Zovickian & Dachling Pang

  3. Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA

    John Zovickian & Dachling Pang

  4. Department of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, 280 W. MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, CA, 94611, USA

    Dachling Pang

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Lee, J.Y., Zovickian, J., Wang, KC. et al. Subcutaneous cervical emphysema associated with mastoid fracture. Childs Nerv Syst 28, 489–491 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00381-012-1685-0

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