Liquid injectable silicone: History, mechanism of action, indications, technique, and complications

Seminars in Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 107-114

  Hexsel, Dóris Maria ^a,c   Hexsel, Camile Luiza ^a   Iyengar, Vivek ^b  

^a Sch of Med of University de Passo   (Brazil)

^b SkinCare Physicians of Chestnut Hill   (United States)

^c Plinio Brasil Milano 476 ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; FILLER; SILICONE; TRIAMCINOLONE;

ALLERGY; DEFORMITY; ECCHYMOSIS; EDEMA; ERYTHEMA; ESTHETIC SURGERY; GRANULOMA; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INFECTION; LIPOATROPHY; NECROSIS; PAIN; REVIEW; SILICONE PROSTHESIS; TECHNIQUE; TELANGIECTASIA; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 0038160948     PISSN: 10855629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/sder.2003.50010     Document Type: Review

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