Surgical brain metastases: management and outcome related to prognostic indexes: a critical review of a ten-year series.

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Published in ISRN Surg on September 20, 2011

Authors

Manuela Caroli1, Andrea Di Cristofori, Francesca Lucarella, Fabio Angelo Raneri, Francesco Portaluri, Sergio Maria Gaini

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Neurosurgery, Università degli Studi di Milano, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda-Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, 20122 Milan, Italy.

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