Incidence of Capsular Contracture in Polyurethane versus Smooth Implants

Abstract

Get full access to this article

View all access options for this article.

References

Regnault

Daniel

: Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. Boston, Little, Brown, 1984.

Bostwick

: Aesthetic and Reconstructive Breast Surgery. St. Louis, C.V. Mosby, 1983.

Eyssen

von Werssowetz

Middleton

: Reconstruction of the breast using polyurethane-coated prostheses. Plast Recontr Surg 73:415, 1984.

Melmed

: Polyurethane implants: a 6-year review of 416 patients. Plast Recontr Surg 82:285, 1988.

Ashley

: A new type of breast prostheses: Preliminary report. Plast Recontr Surg 45:421, 1970.

Ashley

: Further studies on the Natural-Y breast prosthesis. Plast Recontr Surg 49:414, 1972.

Tobin

Middleton

: Revision mammoplasty using the Replicon™ implant. Am J Cosm Surg 4:201, 1987.

Uysal

: Transaxillary augmentation mammoplasty with Natural-Y Replicon™ implants. Am J Cosm Surg 5:89, 1988.

Brand

: A review of polyurethane's laboratory and clinical history and the material's role in normal healing. Paper presented at the Plastic Surgery Symposium, 1987, France.

10.

Hester

: The polyurethane-covered mammary prosthesis: Facts and fiction. Perspect Plast Surg 2:135, 1988.

11.

Dolsky

: Inserting the Meme prosthesis. Plast Recontr Surg 73:466–468, 1984.