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Silicone breast implant materials.
This opinion article has been written on request because of the recent public controversy over silicone breast implants produced by a now-defunct company, Poly Implant Prosthese (PIP) in France. More than 300,000 PIP devices have been implanted. The purposes of my article are to (1.) provide a general overview of silicone breast implant materials, (2.) to describe the general safety of these ma...
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متن کاملIntraductal Extracapsular Rupture of Silicone Breast Implant
*Correspondence: Wendie A. Berg, Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and MageeWomens Hospital of UPMC, 300 Halket St., Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA, E-mail: [email protected] Received Date: 18 Mar 2017 Accepted Date: 31 May 2017 Published Date: 05 Jun 2017 Citation: Seynnaeve C, Berg WA. Intraductal Extracapsular Rupture of Silicone Breast Implant. Ann Clin Case...
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متن کاملExtensive silicone lymphadenopathy after breast implant insertion mimicking malignant lymphadenopathy
Silicone implants are widely used in aesthetic and reconstructive breast surgery. Silicone lymphadenopathy is a well-known rare complication of implant insertion. Silicone leakage from a rupture or silicone bleeding can accumulate in lymph nodes. Foreign body reactions in the affected lymph nodes may be misdiagnosed as metastasis or malignant lymphadeno pathy upon initial presentation if silico...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0003-4967
DOI: 10.1136/ard.56.4.228a