Ethylene oxide burns from improperly sterilized mammary implants

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 361-369

  Cárdenas Camarena, Lázaro ^a,b  

^a Reconstr Surg Institute of Jalisco   (Mexico)

^b U de Cirugía Pléstica   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHYLENE OXIDE; SILICONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; BURN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EDEMA; EXUDATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; SILICONE PROSTHESIS; SKIN NECROSIS;

ADULT; BREAST; BREAST IMPLANTS; BURNS, CHEMICAL; DISINFECTANTS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; ETHYLENE OXIDE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; SILICONE GELS; STERILIZATION;

EID: 0042288312     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000637-199810000-00003     Document Type: Article

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