We prove a surface embedding theorem for 4-manifolds with good fundamental group in the presence of dual spheres, with no restriction on the normal bundles.The new obstruction is a Kervaire-Milnor invariant for surfaces and we give a combinatorial formula for its computation.For this we introduce the notion of band characteristic surfaces.
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