Soft tissue augmentation with Artecoll: 10-Year history, indications, techniques, and complications

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 573-587

  Lemperle, Gottfried ^a,c   Romano, James J ^c   Busso, Mariano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; HYALURONIC ACID; MICROSPHERE; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

AGING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; ESTHETIC SURGERY; FACE WRINKLING; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FIBROBLAST; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; LIP RECONSTRUCTION; NONHUMAN; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SKIN DEFECT; SOFT TISSUE; SOFT TISSUE AUGMENTATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CICATRIX; COLLAGEN; COSMETIC TECHNIQUES; FACE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRADERMAL; MICROSPHERES; PATIENT SELECTION; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SKIN AGING;

EID: 0038792660     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1524-4725.2003.29140.x     Document Type: Article

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