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Answer to: “Sodium fluorescein-guided resection under the YELLOW 560-nm surgical microscope filter in malignant brain tumor surgery—a feasibility study” (April 2013, Volume 155, Issue 4, pp 693–69)

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    Ricardo Diez Valle & Sonia Tejada Solis

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Diez Valle, R., Tejada Solis, S. Answer to: “Sodium fluorescein-guided resection under the YELLOW 560-nm surgical microscope filter in malignant brain tumor surgery—a feasibility study” (April 2013, Volume 155, Issue 4, pp 693–69). Acta Neurochir 155, 1319–1320 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00701-013-1752-7

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