World Neurosurgery
Volume 73, Issue 3 , Pages 137-146 , March 2010

Microsurgical management of large and giant paraclinoid aneurysms

  • Bai-nan Xu, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurosurgery, General Hospital of People's Liberation Army, Beijing 100853, China
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +86 10 66938038; fax: +86 10 68150287.
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  • Zheng-hui Sun, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurosurgery, General Hospital of People's Liberation Army, Beijing 100853, China
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  • Rossana Romani, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurosurgery, Helsinki University Central Hospital, 00260 Helsinki, Finland
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  • Jin-li Jiang, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurosurgery, General Hospital of People's Liberation Army, Beijing 100853, China
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  • Chen Wu, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurosurgery, General Hospital of People's Liberation Army, Beijing 100853, China
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  • Ding-biao Zhou, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurosurgery, General Hospital of People's Liberation Army, Beijing 100853, China
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  • Xin-guang Yu, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurosurgery, General Hospital of People's Liberation Army, Beijing 100853, China
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  • Juha Hernesniemi, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurosurgery, Helsinki University Central Hospital, 00260 Helsinki, Finland
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  • Bao-min Li, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurosurgery, General Hospital of People's Liberation Army, Beijing 100853, China

Received 14 September 2008 ,Accepted 16 July 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.surneu.2009.07.042

World Neurosurgery
Volume 73, Issue 3 , Pages 137-146 , March 2010

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