Nerve injuries in aesthetic breast surgery: Systematic review and treatment options

Aesthetic Surgery Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 841-856

  Ducic, Ivica ^a   Zakaria, Hesham M ^b   Felder, John M ^a   Fantus, Sarah ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

aesthetic surgery; breast augmentation; breast surgery; chronic pain; mastopexy; nerve injury; surgical complications

Indexed keywords

BRACHIAL PLEXUS; BREAST AUGMENTATION; BREAST IMPLANT; BREAST SURGERY; CHRONIC PAIN; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ESTHETIC SURGERY; HUMAN; HYPERESTHESIA; HYPESTHESIA; INCIDENCE; INTERCOSTAL NERVE; INTERCOSTOBRACHIAL NERVE; LONG THORACIC NERVE; MASTOPEXY; NERVE INJURY; NERVE SURGERY; PARESTHESIA; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ADULT; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; FEMALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BREAST IMPLANTATION; CHRONIC PAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84905498218     PISSN: 1090820X     EISSN: 1527330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1090820X14536726     Document Type: Review

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