Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery
Volume 63, Issue 10 , Pages 1588-1591 , October 2010

Resource implications of bilateral autologous breast reconstruction – a single centre's seven year experience

Received 16 June 2009 ,Revised 29 September 2009 ,Accepted 1 October 2009.

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☆ Presented at: 42nd Congress of the European Society for Surgical Research (ESSR), Rotterdam, The Netherlands, May 2007.

☆☆ British Association of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (BAPRAS) Summer Meeting, Deauville, France, July 2007.

PII: S1748-6815(09)00726-8

doi: 10.1016/j.bjps.2009.10.002

Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery
Volume 63, Issue 10 , Pages 1588-1591 , October 2010

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