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Volume 1, Issue 3 , Pages 207-212 , September 2006

Treatment of a clivus abscess in a child using image-guidance

Dwight D. Bates
- Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Brenner's Children's Hospital, Department of Otolaryngology, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, United States
- Tel.: +1 336 716 3648; fax: +1 336 716 3857.
Avinash K. Shetty
- Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Brenner's Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, United States
- Tel.: +1 336 716 2740; fax: +1 336 716 9699.
Daniel J. Kirse
- Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Brenner's Children's Hospital, Department of Otolaryngology, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, United States
- Correspondence to: Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Department of Otolaryngology, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, United States. Tel.: +1 336 716 3648; fax: +1 336 716 3857.

Received 9 February 2006 ,Revised 19 March 2006 ,Accepted 21 March 2006.

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