Published in Neurosurgery on August 01, 2009
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Predicting intracranial lesions by antiplatelet agents in subjects with mild head injury. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry (2010) 0.89
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Prevalence of cervical spinal injury in trauma. Neurosurg Focus (2008) 0.88
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Temporal dynamics of microparticle elevation following subarachnoid hemorrhage. J Neurosurg (2012) 0.86
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Use of the vascularized free fibula graft with an arteriovenous loop for fusion of cervical and thoracic spinal defects in previously irradiated pediatric patients. Plast Reconstr Surg (2011) 0.86