Infusion port dislodgment of bilateral breast tissue expanders after MRI

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 46-48

  Zegzula, H Daniel ^a   Lee, W P Andrew ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Wang Ambulatory Care Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIAL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE PORT SYSTEM; MASTECTOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS LOOSENING; SAFETY; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BREAST TUMOR; EQUIPMENT; FOREIGN BODY; IMPLANT; INDWELLING CATHETER; INSTRUMENTATION; LUNG CARCINOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE CANCER; RADIOGRAPHY; REOPERATION;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY, MODIFIED RADICAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; REOPERATION; TISSUE EXPANDERS;

EID: 0035171499     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000637-200101000-00009     Document Type: Article

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