Otfrid Foerster, the great neurologist and neurosurgeon from Breslau (Wrocław): his influence on early neurosurgeons and legacy to present-day neurosurgery.

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• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Journal of Neurosurgery

• Publication date

  2007-08-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, History

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3171/JNS-07/08/0451PMID 17695406
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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