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Authors reply: Letter to editor regarding “Management of perineural (Tarlov) cysts: a population-based cohort study and algorithm for the selection of surgical candidates”

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

    Alexander Fletcher-Sandersjöö, Erik Edström & Adrian Elmi-Terander

  2. Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Bioclinicum J5:20, 171 64, Solna, Stockholm, Sweden

    Alexander Fletcher-Sandersjöö, Erik Edström & Adrian Elmi-Terander

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Fletcher-Sandersjöö, A., Edström, E. & Elmi-Terander, A. Authors reply: Letter to editor regarding “Management of perineural (Tarlov) cysts: a population-based cohort study and algorithm for the selection of surgical candidates”. Acta Neurochir 162, 127–128 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00701-019-04125-7

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