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Ming Lee1, Evan McClure, Erik Reinertsen

  • 1Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Ga. Emory University School of Medicine, and Goizueta Business School, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga. Emory University School of Medicine, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Emory University, and Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga. Division of Plastic Surgery, University of California, Los Angeles, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, Calif.

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
|February 28, 2015
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