Electrostimulation: Uses and applications for periprosthetic capsular contracture: Experimental model

Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 410-414

  Cárdenas Camarena, Lázaro ^a   Paillet, Juan Carlos ^a   Briseño, Rosa ^a  

^a NONE   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Breast augmentation; Electrostimulation; Mammary capsular contracture

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREAST AUGMENTATION; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; CONTRACTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BREAST IMPLANTS; CONTRACTURE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; PECTORALIS MUSCLES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 27144440022     PISSN: 0364216X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00266-005-0056-6     Document Type: Article

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