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. 1992 Dec;67(12):1417–1419. doi: 10.1136/adc.67.12.1417

The place of computed tomography and lumbar puncture in suspected bacterial meningitis.

D H Mellor 1
PMCID: PMC1793959  PMID: 1489216

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