Fate of exposed breast implants in augmentation mammoplasty

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 447-449

  Fodor, Lucian ^b   Ramon, Yitzchak ^a   Ullmann, Yehuda ^b   Eldor, Liron ^b   Peled, Isaac J ^b  

^a RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BREAST AUGMENTATION; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REIMPLANTATION; SILICONE PROSTHESIS; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BREAST IMPLANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; SILICONES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0037740875     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.SAP.0000044251.40733.2B     Document Type: Article

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