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  1. Plastic Surgery Postgraduation Program, Federal University of São Paulo, Rua Napoleão de Barros, 715, 4o Andar, Vila Clementino, CEP: 04024-002, São Paulo, Brazil

    Dione Batista Vila-Nova da Silva, Fábio Xerfan Nahas, Rodolpho Alberto Bussolaro, Maria José Azevedo de Brito & Lydia Masako Ferreira

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Vila-Nova da Silva, D.B., Nahas, F.X., Bussolaro, R.A. et al. The Increasing Growth of Plastic Surgery Lawsuits in Brazil. Aesth Plast Surg 34, 541–542 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00266-009-9460-7

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