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Letter to the editor regarding “A retrospective study of the effect of fibrinogen levels during fresh frozen plasma transfusion in patients with traumatic brain injury”

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  1. Chenghong Wang and Xiaodong Niu contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, 37 Guoxue Alley, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, People’s Republic of China

    Chenghong Wang, Xiaodong Niu, Zhigang Lan & Yuekang Zhang

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Wang, C., Niu, X., Lan, Z. et al. Letter to the editor regarding “A retrospective study of the effect of fibrinogen levels during fresh frozen plasma transfusion in patients with traumatic brain injury”. Acta Neurochir 161, 2479–2480 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00701-019-04077-y

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