Silicone carpal implants: Risk or benefit?

Scandinavian Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Hand Surgery

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1985, Pages 295-304

  Eiken, Oddvar ^a   Ekerot, Lars ^a   Lindström, Clas ^a   Jonsson, Kjell ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILASTIC; SILICONE;

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; ARTHROPLASTY; BONE; BONE PROSTHESIS; CARTILAGE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; DRUG SAFETY; ENDOPROSTHESIS; HAND SURGERY; HUMAN; JOINT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; SILICONE PROSTHESIS; SYNOVITIS; THERAPY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTHROPLASTY; FEMALE; FOREIGN-BODY REACTION; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; OSTEOCHONDRITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEMILUNAR BONE; SILICONE ELASTOMERS; SYNOVITIS; WRIST JOINT;

EID: 0022405020     PISSN: 02844311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02844318509074518     Document Type: Article

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