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Case Reports
. 2021 Apr 24:29:41-44.
doi: 10.1016/j.jpra.2021.04.002. eCollection 2021 Sep.

Intra-muscular course of gracilis pedicle in reconstructive surgery - an important anatomic variant

Dimitrios Kanakopoulos  1   2 , Mohamed A Radhi  2 , Omar Dawood  1   2 , George Christopoulos  1   2 , Tomas Tickunas  1   2 , Christopher Macdonald  1   2 , Andrew Mellington  1   2
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Intra-muscular course of gracilis pedicle in reconstructive surgery - an important anatomic variant

Dimitrios Kanakopoulos et al. JPRAS Open. .
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Figure 1
Demonstration of the pedicle to gracilis muscle dissected through muscle substance of adductor magnus muscle – total intramuscular course.
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