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Contralateral Breast Management

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Breast reconstructive surgery techniques have increasingly evolved in the last decades both by a surgical and postoperative management point of view.

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Klinger, M. et al. (2017). Contralateral Breast Management. In: Veronesi, U., Goldhirsch, A., Veronesi, P., Gentilini, O., Leonardi, M. (eds) Breast Cancer. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48848-6_38

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