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Spare the skin: a technique for minimising native skin flap damage in skin-sparing mastectomy

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  1. Department of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter, EX2 5DW, UK

    Esta S. Bovill & Anna Goodwin-Walters

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Correspondence to Esta S. Bovill.

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This is a brief communication describing a technique to optimise the skin envelope prior to immediate breast reconstruction.

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Bovill, E.S., Goodwin-Walters, A. Spare the skin: a technique for minimising native skin flap damage in skin-sparing mastectomy. Eur J Plast Surg 35, 119–120 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00238-011-0633-7

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