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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455928903321

Titolo

Safety of silicone breast implants [[electronic resource] /] / Stuart Bondurant, Virginia Ernster, and Roger Herdman, editors ; Committee on the Safety of Silicone Breast Implants, Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Institute of Medicine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Institute of Medicine, c2000

ISBN

0-309-51931-4

0-585-21555-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (558 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BondurantStuart

ErnsterVirginia L

HerdmanRoger

Disciplina

618.1/90592

Soggetti

Breast implants - Complications

Silicones - Toxicology

Mammaplasty

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-479) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Front Matter""; ""Reviewers""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Silicone Chemistry""; ""3 Implant Catalogue""; ""4 Silicone Toxicology""; ""5 Reoperations and Specific Local and Perioperative Complications""; ""6 Immunology of Silicone""; ""7 Antinuclear Antibodies and Silicone Breast Implants""; ""8 Epidemiological Studies of Connective Tissue or Rheumatic Diseases and Breast Implants""; ""9 Silicone Breast Implants and Cancer""; ""10 Neurologic Disease and Its Association with Silicone Breast Implants""

""11 Effects on Pregnancy, Lactation, and Children""""12 Silicone Implants and Breast Imaging""; ""Reference Lists""; ""APPENDIX A Brief Description of the Scientific Workshop""; ""APPENDIX B Description of the Public Meeting""; ""APPENDIX B Description of the Public Meeting""; ""APPENDIX C Review of the Reports of the Independent Review Group and the National Science Panel""; ""APPENDIX D Glossary""; ""Index""