Determination of silicon in breast and capsular tissue from patients with breast implants performed by inductively coupled plasma emission spectroscopy: Comparison with tissue histology

American Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 236-246

  Mcconnell, Joseph P ^a,d   Moyer, Thomas P ^a   Nixon, David E ^a   Schnur, Paul L ^b   Salomao, Diva R ^a   Crotty, Thomas B ^a   Weinzweig, Jeffrey ^b   Harris, John B ^c   Petty, Paul M ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast implant; Silicon

Indexed keywords

SILICON; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; BREAST AUGMENTATION; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILICONE PROSTHESIS;

EID: 0031029340     PISSN: 00029173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajcp/107.2.236     Document Type: Article

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