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This paper presents a practical methodology, based on 3343 cases, for making combined aesthetic operations a safe and quick procedure.
The different medico-surgical procedures which comprise this type of operation are analyzed and discussed. The results are illustrated in the figures and in the statistical data of the tables.
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Ivo Pitanguy is Professor of Plastic Reconstructive Surgery at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Chief of the Plastic Surgery Department at the 38th. Infirmary of the “Santa Casa de Misericórdia” General Hospital, and Member of the National Academy of Medicine.
Manoel Augusto Cavalcanti is Resident-Surgeon of the Especialization Course on Plastic Surgery of the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, and 38th. Infirmary of the “Santa Casa de Misericórdia” General Hospital and Ivo Pitanguy Clinic.
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Pitanguy, I., Cavalcanti, M.A. Methodology in combined aesthetic surgeries. Aesth. Plast. Surg. 2, 331–340 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01577967
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01577967