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Giant multi-lobulated mucous cyst of the right face following aesthetic soft tissue augmentation with Bio-Alcamid

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  1. Department of Plastic Surgery, Carmel Medical Center, The Bruce Rapapport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, 7 Michal Street, Haifa, 34362, Israel

    Gil Tamir, Metanes Issa, Aman Boaz & Har-Shai Yaron

  2. Department of E.N.T, Carmel Medical Center, The Bruce Rapapport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, 7 Michal Street, Haifa, 34362, Israel

    Ronen Ohad

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Tamir, G., Ohad, R., Issa, M. et al. Giant multi-lobulated mucous cyst of the right face following aesthetic soft tissue augmentation with Bio-Alcamid. Eur J Plast Surg 35, 403–405 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00238-011-0592-z

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