The history of injectable silicone fluids for soft-tissue augmentation

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 120, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2034-2040

  Chasan, Paul E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADATO SIL O1 5000; FILLER; MDX 44011; METHANE; OXYGEN; PREDNISOLONE; SILICONE; SILICONE OIL; SILIKON 1000; SILOXANE; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACNE; CHEEK NODULE; CHEMISTRY; DATA BASE; HEMIFACIAL ATROPHY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PLASTIC SURGERY; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCAR FORMATION; SKIN NODULE; VISCOSITY; WEBER CHRISTIAN PANNICULITIS; WRINKLE;

ANIMALS; BREAST; COSMETIC TECHNIQUES; DIMETHYLPOLYSILOXANES; DRUG CONTAMINATION; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; FACE; FACIAL HEMIATROPHY; GRANULOMA, FOREIGN-BODY; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; LIPODYSTROPHY; SILICONE OILS; SILICONES; TIME FACTORS; VISCOSITY;

EID: 37349123195     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000267580.92163.33     Document Type: Review

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