Complications leading to surgery after breast implantation

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 336, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 677-682

  Gabriel, Sherine E ^a   Woods, John E ^a   O'Fallon, W Michael ^a   Beard, C Mary ^a   Kurland, Leonard T ^a   Melton III, L Joseph ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST AUGMENTATION; BREAST CANCER; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BREAST IMPLANTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REOPERATION; RISK; SURGERY, PLASTIC; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031041348     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199703063361001     Document Type: Article

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