Silicone gel-filled breast implants and connective tissue diseases

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 261-268

  Park, Alan J ^a   Black, Roger J ^b   Sarhadi, Nanak S ^b   Chetty, Udi ^b   Watson, Anthony C H ^b  

^a Wordsley Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICONE;

ARTICLE; BREAST AUGMENTATION; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, ANTINUCLEAR; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BREAST IMPLANTATION; BREAST IMPLANTS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GELS; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; SILICONES;

EID: 0031930790     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199802000-00001     Document Type: Article

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