Gestational gigantomastia after reduction mammaplasty: Complication or coincidence? [17]

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 956-958

  Ahčan, Uroš ^a   Šolinc, Matjaž ^a   Meglič, Leon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BREAST HYPERPLASIA; BREAST HYPERTROPHY; BREAST REDUCTION; BREAST SURGERY; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYODERMA GANGRENOSUM;

ADULT; BREAST; BREAST IMPLANTS; FEMALE; GIGANTISM; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY, SIMPLE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION;

EID: 0037314386     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-200302000-00096     Document Type: Letter

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