Excess mortality from suicide and other external causes of death among women with cosmetic breast implants

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 119-123

  Lipworth, Loren ^a,b   Nyren, Olof ^b,c   Ye, Weimin ^c   Fryzek, Jon P ^a,b   Tarone, Robert E ^a,b   McLaughlin, Joseph K ^a,b  

^a INTERNATIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT INGRAM CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Alcohol and drug abuse; Breast implants; Epidemiology; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CANCER MORTALITY; CHRONIC RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DEPENDENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SUICIDE;

ADULT; BREAST IMPLANTS; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MORTALITY; SUICIDE;

EID: 34547655842     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SAP.0b013e318052ac50     Document Type: Article

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