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Reviewer Comment on Taghdiri et al. “Access to Endovascular Thrombectomy: Does Driving Time to Comprehensive Stroke Center Matter More than Rurality?”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2025

Mahesh Kate*
Affiliation:
Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Aleksander Tkach
Affiliation:
Kelowna General Hospital, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
*
Corresponding author: Mahesh Kate; Email: [email protected]

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