Letter: The Coronavirus Disease 2019 Global Pandemic: A Neurosurgical Treatment Algorithm

Overview

Journal Neurosurgery

Specialty Neurosurgery

Date 2020 Apr 4

PMID 32242901

Citations 88

Authors

John F Burke

Andrew K Chan

Valli Mummaneni

Dean Chou

Errol P Lobo

Mitchel S Berger

Philip V Theodosopoulos

Praveen V Mummaneni

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