Mastectomy with breast reconstruction in previously augmented patients: Indications for implant removal

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 500-505

  Robbins, Chad M ^a,b   Long, James N ^a   Fix, R Jobe ^a   De La Torre, Jorge I ^a   Vasconez, Luis O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast augmentation; Breast implants; Breast reconstruction; Implant removal; Implant rupture; Mastectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CONTRACTURE; DEVICE REMOVAL; EXPLANT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEROMA; SILICONE PROSTHESIS; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNITED STATES; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED;

BREAST; BREAST IMPLANTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 59449085754     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SAP.0b013e31817e9cef     Document Type: Article

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