Breast autoinflation with sterile pus as a marker of implant rupture: Single-stage treatment and outcome for five consecutive cases

Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 58-65

  Khan, Umar Daraz ^a  

^a Belvedere Private Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Augmentation; Breast implant safety; Breast infections; Capsular contracture; Change of breast implant pocket; Gel bleed; Implant rupture; Muscle splitting; Silicon lymphadenitis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BREAST IMPLANTATION; BREAST IMPLANTS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; SAMPLING STUDIES; SUPPURATION; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 58149456659     PISSN: 0364216X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00266-008-9225-8     Document Type: Article

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