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High or low incidence of the lateral thoracic artery’s origin from the thoracoacromial artery?

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Paraskevas, G.K. High or low incidence of the lateral thoracic artery’s origin from the thoracoacromial artery?. Surg Radiol Anat 37, 887–889 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00276-015-1449-0

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