Imaging signs and radiologists' jargon of ruptured breast implants

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1281-1289

  Beekman, Wemer H ^a,c   Van Straalen, Wouter R ^a   Joris Hage, J ^a   Van Taets Amerongen, Annette H M ^b   Wiebe Mulder, J ^b  

^a Academisch Zickenhuis Vrije Universiteit ^*

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICONE;

BREAST AUGMENTATION; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; BREAST PROSTHESIS; BREAST SURGERY; ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; SILICONE PROSTHESIS;

BREAST; BREAST IMPLANTS; FEMALE; GELS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAMMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; SILICONE ELASTOMERS; TERMINOLOGY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 0031696354     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199809040-00062     Document Type: Review

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