Composite free flap reconstruction of the mandible
✍ Scribed by R. Kontio
- Book ID
- 116561096
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 59 KB
- Volume
- 38
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0901-5027
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