Polymethylmethacrylate facial implant: A successful personal experience in brazil for more than 9 years

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1221-1227

  Carvalho Costa, Izelda Maria ^a   Salaro, Cristina Paula ^b   Costa, Mariana Carvalho ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^b Private Practice   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

ACNE; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; BRAZIL; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE MALFORMATION; FACE SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMPLANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SAFETY; PHOTOAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAR; WRINKLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAZIL; FACE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; SURGERY, PLASTIC;

EID: 68749113021     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2009.01216.x     Document Type: Article

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