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Fries, C.A., Davis, M.R., Rickard, R.F. (2017). Soft Tissue Reconstruction. In: Breeze, J., Penn-Barwell, J., Keene, D., O'Reilly, D., Jeyanathan, J., Mahoney, P. (eds) Ballistic Trauma. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61364-2_29

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