Retrospective case review of capsular contracture after two-stage breast reconstruction: Is colonization of the tissue expander pocket associated with subsequent implant capsular contracture?

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 420-424

  Macadam, Sheina A ^a,c   Clugston, Patricia A ^b   Germann, Eva T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CAPSULAR CONTRACTURE; CONTRACTURE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRRADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; NONHUMAN; PEPTOSTREPTOCOCCUS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BREAST IMPLANTATION; BREAST IMPLANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPECIMEN HANDLING; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TISSUE EXPANDERS;

EID: 7044220754     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000130705.19174.d4     Document Type: Review

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