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Shunt complications.

M P Sayers
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To some extent our greatest problem is the philosophic answer to the question, "who shall be treated, how intensely and to what expense?" The cost of care is almost always greatest in the child who is borderline in selection and least likely to survive. Over half of the children shunted after application of searching criteria appear to this author to be compensated (Table 28.13).

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M P Sayers. 1976. Shunt complications.. https://doi.org/10.1093/neurosurgery%2F23.cn_suppl_1.393

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