No Value of Routine Brain Computed Tomography 6 Weeks after Evacuation of Chronic Subdural Hematoma

CC BY 4.0 · Surg J (N Y) 2018; 04(04): e235-e236
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1673341

Letter to the Editor

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Mehmet Turgut

¹Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, Adnan Menderes University, Aydın, Turkey

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