Prosthesis salvage in breast reconstruction patients with periprosthetic infection and exposure

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 42-48

  Prince, Melanie D ^a   Suber, Jessica S ^a   Aya Ay, Melanie L ^a   Cone, Jeffrey D ^a   Greene, John N ^a   Smith, David J ^a   Smith, Paul D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; BREAST TUMOR; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPLANT CAPSULAR CONTRACTURE; INFECTION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ADULT; BREAST IMPLANTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMPLANT CAPSULAR CONTRACTURE; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 84555217979     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3182361fbd     Document Type: Article

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