Short report: Encephaloceles in Nigerian Igbos
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- 1 July 1977
- journal article
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
- Vol. 40 (7) , 726
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.40.7.726
Abstract
A survey of surgical specimens submitted to a central laboratory suggests that the Igbos of Nigeria are a further ethnic group in whom the anterior encephalocele is comparatively common.Keywords
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