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Lingual Grafts

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Advanced Male Urethral and Genital Reconstructive Surgery

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Today, if free extragenital tissue is needed to perform urethroplasty, an oral mucosal graft is considered the best tissue, providing excellent clinical results.

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  1. Department of Urology, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria San Martino – IST, Largo R. Benzi 10, Genoa, 16132, Italy

    Alchiede Simonato MD

  2. Department of Urologic Surgery, “Luigi Sacco” University Medical Center, Milan, Italy

    Andrea Gregori MD

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  1. Department of Surgery Division of Urologic Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

    Steven B. Brandes

  2. Department of Urology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA

    Allen F. Morey

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Simonato, A., Gregori, A. (2014). Lingual Grafts. In: Brandes, S., Morey, A. (eds) Advanced Male Urethral and Genital Reconstructive Surgery. Current Clinical Urology. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7708-2_14

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