Back to the future: A 15-year experience with polyurethane foam-covered breast implants using the partial-subfascial technique

Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 331-338

  De La Peña Salcedo, Jose Abel ^a   Soto Miranda, Miguel Angel ^a   Lopez Salguero, Jose Fernando ^a  

^a Institute for Plastic Surgery   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Capsular contracture; Implant rupture; Partial subfascial technique; Polyurethane implants; Polyurethane induced cancer

Indexed keywords

POLYURETHAN; POLYURETHAN FOAM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST AUGMENTATION; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPLANT CAPSULAR CONTRACTURE; METHODOLOGY; PROSTHESIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; BREAST IMPLANTATION; BREAST IMPLANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMPLANT CAPSULAR CONTRACTURE; POLYURETHANES; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863723285     PISSN: 0364216X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00266-011-9826-5     Document Type: Article

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