Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery
Volume 60, Issue 12 , Pages 1309-1312 , December 2007

The Asplund-Davies vertical scar breast reduction technique preserves the sub-areolar skin thickness in the long term: a matched comparative study with the inverted T technique

Received 26 October 2005 ,Accepted 8 January 2006.

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☆ Presented by the corresponding author at the Summer Scientific Meeting of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons, Windsor, July 2005.

PII: S1748-6815(07)00304-X

doi: 10.1016/j.bjps.2007.06.001

Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery
Volume 60, Issue 12 , Pages 1309-1312 , December 2007

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