The Mentor study on contour profile gel 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 GEL;

ARTICLE; BREAST AUGMENTATION; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTRACTURE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RISK FACTOR; SILICONE PROSTHESIS; SURGEON; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TRAINING;

BREAST; BREAST DISEASES; BREAST IMPLANTS; COHORT STUDIES; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASES; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REOPERATION; RISK FACTORS; RUPTURE; SILICONE GELS; SURGERY, PLASTIC;

EID: 37349107170     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000286665.91043.bc     Document Type: Article

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