Complications after polymethylmethacrylate injections: Report of 32 cases

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1811-1820

  Salles, Alessandra Grassi ^a   Lotierzo, Priscilla Helena ^a   Gemperli, Rolf ^a   Besteiro, Júlio Morais ^a   Ishida, Luís Carlos ^a   Gimenez, Rodrigo Pinto ^a   Menezes, Jorge ^a   Ferreira, Marcus Castro ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHEILITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PHYSICIAN; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN NECROSIS; SURGEON; SURGICAL INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BRAZIL; CHEILITIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOREIGN-BODY REACTION; GRANULOMA, FOREIGN-BODY; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRADERMAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; REOPERATION; RHYTIDOPLASTY; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 43149115843     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31816b1385     Document Type: Article

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