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You can't always get what you want
  1. Robert W Tarr
  1. Correspondence to Dr Robert W Tarr, Department of Radiology, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, 11100 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio, OH 44106, USA; robert.tarr{at}uhhospitals.org

https://doi.org/10.1136/neurintsurg-2015-012200

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    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.