Bilateral pneumothoraces: A rarely described complication following augmentation mammaplasty

Aesthetic Surgery Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 49-52

  Pfulg, Michael E ^a   Favre, Sophie ^a   Verdeja, Raoul ^a  

^a Swiss Plastics Surg Antiaging Inst   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST AUGMENTATION; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CASE REPORT; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; ESTHETIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; LUNG VENTILATION; PATIENT EDUCATION; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBE;

EID: 14044249591     PISSN: 1090820X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asj.2004.11.004     Document Type: Article

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