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Rozen, W.M., Houseman, N.D. & Ashton, M.W. The Circummuscular or Paramuscular Variants of Deep Inferior Epigastric Perforators Detected with CTA: Should These Be Called Variants at All?. Aesth Plast Surg 33, 119–120 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00266-008-9252-5
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