The Mentor core study on silicone MemoryGel breast implants

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 120, Issue 7 SUPPL. 1, 2007, Pages

  Cunningham, Bruce ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b MMC 112 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; BREAST AUGMENTATION; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; FEMALE; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; GEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; MUSCLE CONTRACTURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REOPERATION; RHEUMATOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; BREAST; BREAST DISEASES; BREAST IMPLANTS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REOPERATION; RISK FACTORS; RUPTURE; SILICONE GELS;

EID: 37349001692     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000286574.88752.04     Document Type: Article

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