Breast implants and breast cancer: A review of incidence, detection, mortality, and survival

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

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

  Deapen, Dennis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICONE;

ARTICLE; BREAST AUGMENTATION; BREAST CANCER; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVAL; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILICONE PROSTHESIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED STATES;

BREAST IMPLANTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; RISK FACTORS; SARCOMA;

EID: 37349026627     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000286577.70026.5d     Document Type: Article

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