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Invited Response on: Perceptions of Silicone Structure and Function

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  1. Plastic Surgery Unit, Corporación Medicoplástica, Hospital Español de México, Av. Ejercito Nacional 613, Piso 7, consultorio 703, Col. Granada, Alcaldía Miguel Hidalgo, 11520, Mexico City, Mexico

    Maria-Isabel Caravantes-Cortes

  2. Directorate of Research, Hospital General de México “Dr. Eduardo Liceaga”, Mexico City, Mexico

    Ernesto Roldan-Valadez

  3. Department of Radiology, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, (Sechenov University), Moscow, Russia

    Ernesto Roldan-Valadez

  4. Department of Surgery, Hospital General de Zona 71 - Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social “IMSS”, Veracruz, Mexico

    Shirley-Yoselin Salazar-Ruiz

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Caravantes-Cortes, MI., Roldan-Valadez, E. & Salazar-Ruiz, SY. Invited Response on: Perceptions of Silicone Structure and Function. Aesth Plast Surg 44, 1917–1918 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00266-020-01718-x

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