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Surgical Anatomy of the Abdominal Wall

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The objective of this chapter is to concentrate the attention of the reader on particular anatomical details of the abdominal wall, which are important for the surgical perspective.

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Bingöl, D., Mutlu, O.O., Oymak, O. (2017). Surgical Anatomy of the Abdominal Wall. In: Tiryaki, K. (eds) Inverse Abdominoplasty. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39310-0_1

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