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'Love handles' repurposed for breast reconstruction in women without enough belly fat
Published in Medical Devices and Surgical Technology Week, May 2nd, 2010
Plastic and reconstructive surgeons from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine describe the procedure they developed in a paper published in the online version of the journal Microsurgery, based on experience from their work on cadavers and on 12 breast cancer patients over the course of a year.
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