Ossifying calcification of breast implant capsule [17]

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1880-1882

  Fodor, Janos ^a   Udvarhelyi, Nora ^a   Gulyas, Gusztav ^a   Kasler, Miklos ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BREAST AUGMENTATION; BREAST CALCIFICATION; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; BREAST FIBROADENOMA; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; OSSIFICATION; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILICONE PROSTHESIS; BREAST; CALCINOSIS; HETEROTOPIC OSSIFICATION; MASTECTOMY; PATHOLOGY;

SILICONE GEL;

ADULT; BREAST; BREAST IMPLANTATION; BREAST IMPLANTS; CALCINOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY; OSSIFICATION, HETEROTOPIC; SILICONE GELS;

EID: 2442621195     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000119879.36610.E2     Document Type: Letter

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