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Unit approach to glabella reconstruction

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Topographic units of the face have been described previously. Recently, the miniunit has been used as a means of minimizing the sacrifice of normal remnant tissue. This paper describes a technique that considers the glabella subunit and miniunit and applies this principle to the required reconstruction.

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  1. Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Toho University School of Medicine, 6–11–1 Ohmorinishi Ohta-ku, Tokyo 143-8541, Japan, Tel.:+81-3-3762-4151, Fax:+81-3-3298-6065, , , , , , JP

    E. Okada & Y. Maruyama

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Received: 2 November 1998 / Accepted: 20 January 1999

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Okada, E., Maruyama, Y. Unit approach to glabella reconstruction. E J Plastic Surg 22, 270–272 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002380050205

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