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Does Pleomorphic Adenoma Really Require Total Parotidectomy?

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  1. Department of Oral, Craniomaxillofacial and Facial Plastic Surgery, Scientific Unit for Clinical and Psychosocial Research, Evidence-Based Surgery and Ethics in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

    Poramate Pitak-Arnnop DDS, MSc, DSc, Kittipong Dhanuthai DDS, MSc, Alexander Hemprich MD, DMD, PhD & Niels Christian Pausch MD, DMD, PhD

  2. Laboratory of Medical Ethics and Legal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University Paris 5 (René Descartes), Paris, France

    Poramate Pitak-Arnnop DDS, MSc, DSc

  3. Department of Maxillofacial Surgery, AP-HP, Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, University Paris 6 (Pierre et Marie Curie), Paris, France

    Poramate Pitak-Arnnop DDS, MSc, DSc

  4. Department of Oral Pathology, Faculty of Dentistry, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

    Kittipong Dhanuthai DDS, MSc

  5. Klinik und Poliklinik für Mund-, Kiefer- und Plastische Gesichtschirurgie, Universitätsklinikum Leipzig AöR, Leipzig, Germany

    Poramate Pitak-Arnnop DDS, MSc, DSc

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Pitak-Arnnop, P., Dhanuthai, K., Hemprich, A. et al. Does Pleomorphic Adenoma Really Require Total Parotidectomy?. Ann Surg Oncol 18 (Suppl 3), 248–249 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-010-1466-5

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