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Invited Discussion on: “Negative Pressure Wound Therapy for Improved Nipple Survival in Large Volume Reduction Mammaplasty by Ricardo Engel, Yitzchok Greenberg, Aamir Siddiqui”

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  1. Department of Plastic Surgery, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, USA

    Petros Konofaos & Safak Uygur

  2. University Plastic Surgeons, 1068 Cresthaven Rd, Suite 500, Memphis, TN, 38119, USA

    Petros Konofaos

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Konofaos, P., Uygur, S. Invited Discussion on: “Negative Pressure Wound Therapy for Improved Nipple Survival in Large Volume Reduction Mammaplasty by Ricardo Engel, Yitzchok Greenberg, Aamir Siddiqui”. Aesth Plast Surg 46, 113–114 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00266-021-02569-w

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