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Use of a strip-clip technique to maintain transposition of a vertebral artery in microvascular decompression surgery

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The authors received editing support for the final version from Susan Wieting, Bern University Hospital, Department of Neurosurgery, Bern, Switzerland.

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, Neurocenter, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Andreas Raabe, Volker Seifert & Jürgen Beck

  2. Department of Surgery, Neurosurgical Division, Bangkok Metropolitan Administration Medical College and Vajira Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand

    Alongkorn Jaiimsin

  3. Bern University Hospital, Department of Neurosurgery, c/o Publication Office, Susan Wieting, 3010, Bern, Switzerland

    Andreas Raabe

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Raabe, A., Jaiimsin, A., Seifert, V. et al. Use of a strip-clip technique to maintain transposition of a vertebral artery in microvascular decompression surgery. Acta Neurochir 153, 2393–2395 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00701-011-1183-2

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