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Local Control, Aggressive Surgery, and Overall Survival for Breast Cancer

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    Theodore Liakakos MD

  2. Department of Plastic Surgery and Burns, Ioannina University School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece

    Efstathios G. Lykoudis MD

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Liakakos, T., Lykoudis, E.G. Local Control, Aggressive Surgery, and Overall Survival for Breast Cancer. Ann Surg Oncol 15, 1544–1546 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-007-9739-3

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