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A Child with Intra-orbital Oculomotor Nerve Schwannoma without Neurofibromatosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2014

Muhammad Shahzad Shamim
Affiliation:
Department of Neurosurgery, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan
Muhammad Ehsan Bari*
Affiliation:
Department of Neurosurgery, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan
Khalid Nasim Chisti
Affiliation:
Department of Neurosurgery, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan
Asad Abbas
Affiliation:
Department of Ophthalmology, Southeast Texas Medical Associates, Beaumont, TX, USA
*
Department of Neurosurgery, Aga Khan University, Stadium Road, P.O. Box 3500, Karachi-74800, Pakistan.
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Copyright © The Canadian Journal of Neurological 2008

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