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Trends in Reconstructive Neurosurgery pp 241–250Cite as

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), Pre-intraoperative Tractography in Neurosurgery: The Experience of Sant’ Andrea Rome University Hospital

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    Giancarlo D’Andrea MD, Giuseppe Trillo’, Veronica Picotti MD & Antonino Raco MD

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  1. Institute of Neurosurgery Medical School, Catholic University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Massimiliano Visocchi

  2. Dept. of Neurosurgery, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

    H. Maximilian Mehdorn

  3. Department of Neurological Surgery, Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan

    Yoichi Katayama

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D’Andrea, G., Trillo’, G., Picotti, V., Raco, A. (2017). Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), Pre-intraoperative Tractography in Neurosurgery: The Experience of Sant’ Andrea Rome University Hospital. In: Visocchi, M., Mehdorn, H.M., Katayama, Y., von Wild, K.R.H. (eds) Trends in Reconstructive Neurosurgery. Acta Neurochirurgica Supplement, vol 124. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39546-3_36

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