Aesthetic management of the breast following explantation: Evaluation and mastopexy options

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 827-837

  Rohrich, Rod J ^a   Beran, Samuel J ^b   Restifo, Richard J ^b   Copit, Steven E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; BREAST EXPLANTATION; BREAST SURGERY; EXPLANT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALGORITHMS; BREAST; BREAST DISEASES; BREAST IMPLANTS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; DECISION MAKING; ELASTICITY; ESTHETICS; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GELS; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; NIPPLES; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SILICONES; SKIN; SMOKING; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

EID: 0031914965     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199803000-00039     Document Type: Article

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