Relative implant volume and sensibility alterations after breast augmentation

Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 238-243

  Pitanguy, Ivo ^a   Vaena, Michel ^a   Radwanski, Henrique N ^a,b   Nunes, Daniel ^a   Vargas, André F ^a  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Breast augmentation; Implant; Relative volume; Sensibility alterations

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLODYNIA; ARTICLE; BREAST AREOLA; BREAST AUGMENTATION; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; BREAST FEEDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTHETIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; IMPLANT; NORMAL HUMAN; PARESTHESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROMA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGEON; SURGICAL APPROACH; VOLUMETRY; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ADULT; BRAZIL; BREAST; BREAST IMPLANTATION; BREAST IMPLANTS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSATION DISORDERS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TOUCH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34248212260     PISSN: 0364216X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00266-006-0173-x     Document Type: Article

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