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Extra Giant Occipital Encephalocele- Can it Grow Bigger Than This?

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

    Vivek Tandon, Kanwaljeet Garg & Sachin A. Borkar

  2. All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneshwar, India

    Ashok Kumar Mahapatra

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    Vivek Tandon

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Tandon, V., Garg, K., Mahapatra, A.K. et al. Extra Giant Occipital Encephalocele- Can it Grow Bigger Than This?. Indian J Pediatr 81, 1131–1132 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12098-014-1345-3

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