Autologous breast reconstruction in a patient with thalidomide embryopathy: case report
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Background: Thalidomide has caused thalidomide embryopathy (TE) in more than 10,000 live-born children and is typically associated with phocomelia as well several other abnormalities such eye or ear malformations internal organ defects. Nowadays, survivors entered middle age, an age that susceptible to breast cancer women.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: AME surgical journal
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2788-578X']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21037/asj-21-88