Adjuvant Breast Disease: An Evaluation of 100 Symptomatic Women with Breast Implants or Silicone Fluid Injections

The Keio Journal of Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 79-87

  Shoaib, Britta Ostermeyer ^a   Patten, Bernard M ^a   Calkins, Dick S ^b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b KRUG Life Science Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

autoimmunity; biopsy; disease; implants

Indexed keywords

SILICONE DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BREAST DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; IMMUNOLOGY; INJECTION; PATHOLOGY; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; BREAST DISEASES; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJECTIONS; MIDDLE AGE; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SILICONES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0028455197     PISSN: 00229717     EISSN: 18801293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2302/kjm.43.79     Document Type: Article

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