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No competing interests declared.
This work was supported in part by the Surgical Oncology Research
Fellowship CA68971 from the National Institutes of Health (David
E Rivadeneira, MD).
Presented at the American College of Surgeons, 85th Annual
Clinical Congress, San Francisco, CA, October, 1999.
Received October 22, 1999; Revised February 29, 2000; Accepted
March 7, 2000.
From the Department of Surgery, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell
Campus, New York, NY, USA (Rivadeneira, Simmons, Daly, Osborne);
Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
(Rivadeneira, Simmons, Daly, Osborne); Strang-Cornell Breast
Center, New York, NY, USA (Rivadeneira, Simmons, Christos, Hanna,
Daly, Osborne) New York, NY, USA.
Correspondence address: Rache M Simmons, MD, FACS, Department
of Surgery, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell Campus, 525
East 68th St, New York, NY 10021.
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