Sight-seeing in the Solomon Islands

• 1 Neurosurgery Department, Royal Melbourne Hospital, 46-58 Drummond Street, Carlton, VIC 3053.
• 2 Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Pacific Islands Project, Melbourne, VIC.

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