Zero breast implant infection rate and 0.05% hematoma rate following 1720 silicone implant placements for primary breast augmentation: Surgical technique or surgeon luck?

Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 123-124

  Keramidas, Evangelos ^a  

^a MEDONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BREAST IMPLANTATION; BREAST IMPLANTS; FEMALE; GREECE; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK MANAGEMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SILICONE GELS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149456454     PISSN: 0364216X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00266-008-9271-2     Document Type: Letter

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