Breast implants redux: This time with data

Neurology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 849-852

  Ferguson, John H ^a  

^a AMERICAN ACADEMY OF NEUROLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NOTE;

BREAST IMPLANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES;

EID: 0032042476     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.50.4.849     Document Type: Editorial

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