What do women need to know and when do they need to know it?

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

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

  Wood, Susan F ^a   Spear, Scott L ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICONE; SILICONE GEL;

BREAST AUGMENTATION; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; PHYSICIAN; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUPTURE; SILICONE PROSTHESIS; SURVIVAL;

BREAST DISEASES; BREAST IMPLANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; SURGERY, PLASTIC;

EID: 37349091167     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000286742.75755.eb     Document Type: Editorial

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