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Original Article

Incidence and outcome of surgery for adult hydrocephalus patients in Sweden

Nina SundströmDepartment of Radiation Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden; Correspondence[email protected]
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Jan MalmDepartment of Pharmacology and Clinical Neuroscience, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden;
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Katarina LaurellDepartment of Pharmacology and Clinical Neuroscience, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden;
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Fredrik LundinDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden;
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Babar KahlonDepartment of Neurosurgery, University Hospital, Lund, Sweden;
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Kristina G CesariniDepartment of Neuroscience, Neurosurgery, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden;
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Göran LeijonDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden;
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Carsten WikkelsöInstitution of Neuroscience and Physiology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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Pages 21-27 | Received 28 Jan 2016, Accepted 22 Aug 2016, Published online: 13 Sep 2016

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