Breast implant rupture and connective tissue disease: A review of the literature

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

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

  Hölmich, Lisbet Rosenkrantz ^a   Lipworth, Loren ^b   McLaughlin, Joseph K ^b   Friis, Søren ^b  

^a GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICONE;

BREAST AUGMENTATION; BREAST CANCER; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; BREAST EXAMINATION; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RAYNAUD PHENOMENON; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RUPTURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SILICONE PROSTHESIS; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SYMPTOM;

BREAST; BREAST DISEASES; BREAST IMPLANTS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RUPTURE;

EID: 37349077595     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000286664.50274.f2     Document Type: Review

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