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Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 123, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Al Benna, Sammy ^a   Al Busaidi, Said S ^b   Papadimitriou, Georgios ^c   Schonauer, Fabrizio ^d   Steinstrasser, Lars ^e  

^a ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b KHOULA HOSPITAL   (Oman)

^c Euroclinic of Athens ^*  (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^e RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINOPLASTY; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; AWARENESS; BREAST CANCER; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CANCER MORTALITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LETTER; MASTECTOMY; MORTALITY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN FLAP; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; ABDOMEN; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; FEMALE; METHODOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY;

ABDOMEN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 67649409044     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181a8490a     Document Type: Letter

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