The use and correlates of illicit silicone or "fillers" in a population-based sample of transwomen, San Francisco, 2013

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1717-1724

  Wilson, Erin ^a   Rapues, Jenna ^a   Jin, Harry ^a   Raymond, Henry Fisher ^a  

^a SAN FRANCISCO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Complications; Gender change procedure; Silicone; Transgender persons; Transwomen

Indexed keywords

FILLER; ILLICIT DRUG; SILICONE; SILICONE DERIVATIVE;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST; BUTTOCK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FACE; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HIP; HIV TEST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE TO FEMALE TRANSSEXUAL; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONDENT DRIVEN SAMPLING; THIGH; TRANSGENDERISM; UNITED STATES; ADOLESCENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; SEXUALITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSGENDER; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAN FRANCISCO; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SILICONES; TRANSGENDERED PERSONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903790014     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jsm.12558     Document Type: Article

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