A Systematic Approach to Rhinoplasty of the Japanese Nose: A Thirty-Year Experience

Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 221-231

  Shirakabe, Yukio ^a   Suzuki, Yoshiro ^a   Lam, Samuel M ^b  

^a Lam Facial Plastic Surgery Center ^*

^b Ambulatory Plastic Surgery Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Asian; Augmentation; Japanese; Reduction; Rhinoplasty

Indexed keywords

ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; ESTHETIC SURGERY; HUMAN; IMPLANT; JAPAN; NOSE APEX; NOSE RECONSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; NOSE; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RHINOPLASTY; SURGICAL FLAPS; TISSUE EXPANSION;

EID: 0346326045     PISSN: 0364216X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00266-003-0098-6     Document Type: Article

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