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Monitoring the changing pattern of delivery of paediatric epilepsy surgery in England—an audit of a regional service and examination of national trends

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, The General Infirmary at Leeds, Leeds, LS1 3EX, UK

    Gnanamurthy Sivakumar & Paul Chumas

  2. Department of Paediatric Neurosurgery, Children’s University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

    Darach Crimmins

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Sivakumar, G., Chumas, P. & Crimmins, D. Monitoring the changing pattern of delivery of paediatric epilepsy surgery in England—an audit of a regional service and examination of national trends. Childs Nerv Syst 31, 1019–1020 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00381-015-2775-6

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