T. S. Kanaka: First asian woman neurosurgeon, who pioneered stereotactic, functional and cerebral electrode implant surgery and developed separate neurosurgical speciality in India Early 1970

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Asian J Neurosurg 2019; 14(03): 1050
DOI: 10.4103/ajns.AJNS_287_18

Letter to Editor

Autor*innen

Guru Satyarthee

Department of Neurosurgery, Neurosciences Centre, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
Aman Jagdevan

Department of Neurosurgery, Neurosciences Centre, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi

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