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Atraumatic needles for lumbar puncture: why haven't neurologists changed?
- Correspondence to Dr Angharad Grace Davis, Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University, 4 Newark Street, London E1 2AT, UK; angharadgracedavis{at}gmail.com
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Atraumatic needles for lumbar puncture: why haven't neurologists changed?
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- Accepted August 5, 2015
- First published September 8, 2015.
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January 01, 2017
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