Finesse in Gender Affirming Frontal Contouring With Corrugator Resection

Overview

Journal Aesthet Surg J Open Forum

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty General Surgery

Date 2025 Feb 26

PMID 40007598

Authors

Kevin G Hu

Jacqueline Ihnat

Neil Parikh

Melanie Vassallo

Mariana Almeida

David P Alper

Alexandre Prassinos

Ali Aral

Tito Vasquez

Michael Alperovich

Affiliations

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Abstract

Level Of Evidence 4 Therapeutic:

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