Multiple, combined plications of the SMAS-platysma complex: Breaking down the face-aging vectors

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1093-1100

  Cárdenas Camarena, Lázaro ^a,b   González, Luis E ^a  

^a Jalisco Reconstr Surgery Institute   (Mexico)

^b Plastic Surgery Unit   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; APONEUROSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; ESTHETIC SURGERY; FACE MUSCLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PLATYSMA MUSCLE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHYTIDOPLASTY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0345062134     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199909020-00033     Document Type: Article

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