Editorial. Delphi studies in neurosurgery

Sepideh Amin-Hanjani MD1, Howard A. Riina MD, MPhil2, and Fred G. Barker II MD3
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  • 1 Department of Neurosurgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Illinois;
  • | 2 Departments of Neurosurgery and Radiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York; and
  • | 3 Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Online Publication Date:
01 Oct 2021
Page Range:
1217–1218
Volume/Issue:
Volume 136: Issue 5
DOI link:
https://doi.org/10.3171/2021.4.JNS21622
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Volume 136: Issue 5 (May 2022)

in Journal of Neurosurgery

Illustration from Serrato-Avila (pp 1410–1423). Copyright Johns Hopkins University, Art as Applied to Medicine. Published with permission.

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Contributor Notes

Correspondence Fred G. Barker II: fbarker@partners.org.

INCLUDE WHEN CITING Published online October 1, 2021; DOI: 10.3171/2021.4.JNS21622.

Disclosures The authors report no conflict of interest.

ACCOMPANYING ARTICLE DOI: 10.3171/2021.3.JNS2156.

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