Complications after polyacrylamide hydrogel injection for soft-tissue augmentation

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1349-1357

  Ono, Shimpei ^a   Ogawa, Rei ^a   Hyakusoku, Hiko ^a  

^a Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACRYLIC ACID RESIN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GELS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CHEEK; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ESTHETIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOREIGN BODY GRANULOMA; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TISSUE EXPANSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACRYLIC RESINS; ADULT; BREAST; CHEEK; COSMETIC TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRANULOMA, FOREIGN-BODY; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; JAPAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING STUDIES; TISSUE EXPANSION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77958529140     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181ead122     Document Type: Article

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