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Muscle Harvest

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Endoscopic Plastic Surgery

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Over the last several decades, plastic surgery has greatly expanded its horizons with the extensive reconstructive applications possible using muscle tissue flaps. Reconstructive muscle sources have evolved from essentially every territory of the body to take full advantage of muscle tissues’ superior blood supply and overall wound coverage ability, bulk, conformability, and generally modest donor morbidity.l,2

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Robb, G.L., Miller, M.J. (1996). Muscle Harvest. In: Ramirez, O.M., Daniel, R.K. (eds) Endoscopic Plastic Surgery. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2328-3_30

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