Letter: NewFill for skin augmentation: A new filler or failure? [1]

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1530-1532

  Burgess, Cheryl M ^a   Lowe, Nick J ^b,c  

^a Center for Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Clinical Research Specialists Inc   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYLACTIC ACID; LACTIC ACID; POLYMER;

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIODEGRADABILITY; DERMIS; DEVICE; HUMAN; INJECTION SITE; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN AUGMENTATION; SKIN INFLAMMATION; SKIN SURGERY; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; WRINKLE; ADULT; CUTANEOUS PARAMETERS; DRUG EFFECT; ESTHETIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY REACTION; INTRADERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MIDDLE AGED; NOTE; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES;

ADULT; COSMETIC TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; FOREIGN-BODY REACTION; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRADERMAL; LACTIC ACID; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; SKIN AGING;

EID: 33845588123     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2006.32369.x     Document Type: Letter

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