Ashok K. Mahapatra - Split Cord Malformations

Split Cord Malformations

Ashok K. Mahapatra, MS, MCh, DNB, MAMS, FNAS

Vice-Chancellor

Siksha O Anusandhan University

Bhubaneshwar, Odisha

Former Chief of Neurosciences Center

Former Head of Department of Neurosurgery

All India Institute of Medical Sciences

New Delhi, India

Sachin A. Borkar, MCh, FACS, DNB, MNAMS

Additional Professor

Department of Neurosurgery

All India Institute of Medical Sciences

New Delhi, India

Subhashree Mahapatra, BSc, MSc, PhD

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Contents

Amol Raheja, Sanjeev A. Sreenivasan, and Ashok K. Mahapatra

Ashutosh Agarwal, Shweta Kedia, and Ashok K. Mahapatra

Dattaraj P. Sawarkar, Deepak K. Gupta, and Ashok K. Mahapatra

Shweta Kedia, Rajesh Meena, and Ashok K. Mahapatra