Serum silicon levels are elevated in women with silicone gel implants

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 210, Issue , 1996, Pages 59-65

  Teuber, S S ^a,b   Saunders, R L ^a   Halpern, G M ^a   Brucker, R F ^c   Conte, V ^c   Goldman, B D ^c   Winger, E E ^c   Wood, W G ^c   Gershwin, M E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Bay Area Laboratory Co operative   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMETICONE; SILICONE;

ADULT; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; BLOOD LEVEL; BREAST PROSTHESIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KINETICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILICONE PROSTHESIS;

EID: 0030045695     PISSN: 0070217X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-85226-8_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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