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Gino Vissers1,2, Lucas Van Houtven2,3, Jérôme Corthouts1,2
1Department of Plastic Surgery, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium.
Case Reports in Plastic Surgery & Hand Surgery
|February 1, 2020
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We present a 30-year-old man with a sternal Ewing's sarcoma, who was treated by complex resection of the sternal body and reconstruction by a methyl methacrylate sandwich graft and a pedicled latissimus dorsi flap.
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