New biomaterial as a promising alternative to silicone breast implants

Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

Volumn 21, Issue , 2013, Pages 47-56

  Teck Lim, Goy ^a,d   Valente, Stephanie A ^b   Hart Spicer, Cherie R ^b   Evancho Chapman, Mary M ^b   Puskas, Judit E ^a   Horne, Walter I ^c   Schmidt, Steven P ^b  

^a University of Akron   (United States)

^b AKRON CITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d You You International Plaza   (China)

Author keywords

Biopolymers; Breast implants; Histological study; In vivo biocompatibility; Mechanical properties; SIBS

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; BREAST IMPLANTS; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CAPSULAR CONTRACTURE; CLINICAL PRACTICES; DRUG-ELUTING STENTS; HISTOLOGICAL EVALUATION; HISTOLOGICAL STUDY; IMPLANTATION MODELS; IN-VIVO; MOLECULAR WEIGHT AND MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTIONS; NANO-STRUCTURED; POLY(STYRENE-B-ISOBUTYLENE-B-STYRENE) SIBS; POLYISOBUTYLENES; PRE-CLINICAL; SELF-ASSEMBLING; SIBS; SILICONE BREAST IMPLANTS; SILICONE RUBBER; THERMOPLASTIC RUBBERS; TRIBLOCKS;

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIOMECHANICS; BIOMINERALIZATION; BIOPOLYMERS; BLOCK COPOLYMERS; BUTENES; ELASTOMERS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION; STENTS; STYRENE; TISSUE;

SILICONES;

BIOMATERIAL; POLY(STYRENE BETA ISOBUTYLENE BETA STYRENE); POLYMER; SILASTIC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREAST AUGMENTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL RABBIT; EXPLANT; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILICONE BREAST IMPLANT; TENSILE STRENGTH;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BREAST IMPLANTS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RABBITS; SILICONE ELASTOMERS; STYRENES; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 84874566598     PISSN: 17516161     EISSN: 18780180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2013.01.025     Document Type: Article

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