Clinical Experience With a Fourth-Generation Textured Silicone Gel Breast Implant: A Review of 1012 Mentor MemoryGel Breast Implants

Aesthetic Surgery Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 642-647

  Stevens, W Grant ^a   Pacella, Salvatore J ^a   Gear, Andrew J L ^a   Freeman, Mark E ^a   McWhorter, Celeste ^a   Tenenbaum, Marissa J ^a   Stoker, David A ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST AUGMENTATION; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; CAPSULAR CONTRACTURE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTPATIENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCAR FORMATION; SILICONE PROSTHESIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST IMPLANTATION; BREAST IMPLANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SILICONE GELS;

EID: 57349098274     PISSN: 1090820X     EISSN: 1527330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asj.2008.09.008     Document Type: Article

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