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Awareness of spina bifida among family of affected child. A cross sectional questionnaire

Sharifah A. Othman, Abdulrazaq AlOjan, Mohammed AlShammari and Ahmed Ammar
Saudi Medical Journal July 2019, 40 (7) 727-731; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2019.7.24264
Sharifah A. Othman
From the College of Medicine (Othman, AlShammari), Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University, Dammam and from the Neurosurgery Department (AlOjan, Ammar), King Fahad University Hospital, Al Khobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Abdulrazaq AlOjan
From the College of Medicine (Othman, AlShammari), Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University, Dammam and from the Neurosurgery Department (AlOjan, Ammar), King Fahad University Hospital, Al Khobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Mohammed AlShammari
From the College of Medicine (Othman, AlShammari), Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University, Dammam and from the Neurosurgery Department (AlOjan, Ammar), King Fahad University Hospital, Al Khobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Ahmed Ammar
From the College of Medicine (Othman, AlShammari), Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University, Dammam and from the Neurosurgery Department (AlOjan, Ammar), King Fahad University Hospital, Al Khobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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