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Response to “Surgical approach to low-grade tectal gliomas”

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  1. Gamma Knife Center Cairo, Cairo, Egypt

    Amr Mohamed Nageeb El-Shehaby & Wael Abdel Halim Reda

  2. Neurosurgery Department, Ain Shams University Faculty of Medicine, Cairo, Egypt

    Amr Mohamed Nageeb El-Shehaby & Wael Abdel Halim Reda

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El-Shehaby, A.M.N., Reda, W.A.H. Response to “Surgical approach to low-grade tectal gliomas”. Acta Neurochir 157, 1375–1376 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00701-015-2472-y

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