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. 2025 Mar 21;13(3):e6578.
doi: 10.1097/GOX.0000000000006578. eCollection 2025 Mar.

Tumescent Local Anesthesia for Wide-awake Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy

Jayson S Dool  1 , Donald H Lalonde  2
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Tumescent Local Anesthesia for Wide-awake Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy

Jayson S Dool et al. Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open. .
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Conflict of interest statement

Dr. Lalonde receives royalties from Thieme Medical Publishers and serves as a consultant for Accurate Surgical & Scientific Instruments, Corp. The other author has no financial interest to declare in relation to the content of this article.

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