Clinical and morphological conditions in capsular contracture formed around silicone breast implants

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 275-284

  Prantl, Lukas ^a,b   Schreml, Stephan ^a   Fichtner Feigl, Stefan ^a   Pöppl, Nina ^a   Eisenmann Klein, Marita ^a   Schwarze, Hartmut ^a   Füchtmeier, Bernd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBER; SILICON;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; CALCIFICATION; CAPSULAR CONTRACTURE; CELL COUNT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRACTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY GRANULOMA; GIANT CELL; HISTIOCYTE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATORY CELL; MACROPHAGE; METAPLASIA; MORPHOLOGY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SYMPTOM;

ADULT; BREAST IMPLANTATION; BREAST IMPLANTS; COHORT STUDIES; CONTRACTURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRANULOMA, FOREIGN-BODY; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MATERIALS TESTING; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROBABILITY; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REOPERATION; RISK FACTORS; SILICONE GELS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 34250696592     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000264398.85652.9a     Document Type: Article

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