Current status of breast implant survival properties and the management of the woman with silicone gel breast implants
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Division of Plastic Surgery, Wellesley Hospital, and the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Presented in part at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Plastic Surgeons, June 24, 1999, Montreal, Quebec This article is the winner of the 1999 Mentor Prize Correspondence: Dr Walter Peters, Suite 418, 160 Wellesley Street East, Toronto, Ontario M4Y 1J3. Telephone 416-926-7790, fax 416-926-4997, e-mail [email protected] W Peters. Current status of breast implant survival properties and the management of the woman with silicone gel breast implants. Can J Plast Surg 2000;8(2):54-67.
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