The brava external tissue expander: Is breast enlargement without surgery a reality?

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1680-1689

  Schlenz, Ingrid ^a   Kaider, Alexandra ^b  

^a WILHELMINEN HOSPITAL   (Austria)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST AUGMENTATION; BREAST PROSTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; VOLUMETRY; WEIGHT CHANGE; ADOLESCENT; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMPLANT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; TISSUE EXPANSION DEVICES;

EID: 38449112687     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000267637.43207.19     Document Type: Article

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