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Overtightening of halo pins resulting in intracranial penetration, pneumocephalus, and epileptic seizure

Alexander W. Glover, Rasheed Zakaria, Paul May and Chris Barrett
International Journal of Spine Surgery January 2013, 7 e42-e44; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsp.2013.01.004
Alexander W. Glover
The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK
BSc, MBChB (Hons)
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Rasheed Zakaria
The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK
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Paul May
The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK
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vol. 7 e42-e44
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsp.2013.01.004

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2211-4599
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  • Published online January 1, 2013.

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© 2013 ISASS - The International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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  1. Alexander W. Glover, BSc, MBChB (Hons)*,
  2. Rasheed Zakaria, MBChB,
  3. Paul May, MBBS, FRCS and
  4. Chris Barrett, MBChB (Hons)
  1. The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK
  1. ↵* Corresponding author: A.W. Glover, The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK. E-mail address: alexander.w.glover{at}me.com
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