The fortune cookie flap for aesthetic reconstruction after chest keloid resection: a small case series

Tae Hwan Park1, Jang Won Lee2, Chan Woo Kim2

  • 1Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, CHA Bundang Medical Center, CHA University, 59 Yatap-ro, Bundang-gu, Seongnam, Gyeonggi, 13496, Republic of Korea. hard-piano@hanmail.net.

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