 Breast Implants
"Breast Implants" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
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Implants used to reconstruct and/or cosmetically enhance the female breast. They have an outer shell or envelope of silicone elastomer and are filled with either saline or silicone gel. The outer shell may be either smooth or textured.
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D018427
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E07.695.140
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| Concept/Terms |
Breast Implants- Breast Implants
- Breast Prosthesis, Internal
- Breast Prostheses, Internal
- Internal Breast Prostheses
- Internal Breast Prosthesis
- Prostheses, Internal Breast
- Prosthesis, Internal Breast
- Implants, Breast
- Breast Implant
- Implant, Breast
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2016 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Breast Implants" by people in Profiles.
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Caragacianu DL, Mayer EL, Chun YS, Caterson S, Bellon JR, Wong JS, Troyan S, Rhei E, Dominici LS, Economy KE, Tung NM, Schapira L, Partridge A, Calvillo KZ. Immediate breast reconstruction following mastectomy in pregnant women with breast cancer. J Surg Oncol. 2016 Aug; 114(2):140-3.
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Ascherman JA, Zeidler KR, Jacoby A, Appel JZ, Berkowitz RL, Castle J, Colwell A, Chun YS, Johnson DJ, Mohebali K. Carbon Dioxide versus Saline Tissue Expanders: Does It Matter? Plast Reconstr Surg. 2016 Jan; 137(1):31-5.
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Sutton EJ, Watson EJ, Gibbons G, Goldman DA, Moskowitz CS, Jochelson MS, Dershaw DD, Morris EA. Incidence of Internal Mammary Lymph Nodes with Silicone Breast Implants at MR Imaging after Oncoplastic Surgery. Radiology. 2015 Nov; 277(2):381-7.
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Zeidler KR, Berkowitz RL, Chun YS, Alizadeh K, Castle J, Colwell AS, Desai AR, Evans G, Hollenbeck S, Johnson DJ, Morris D, Ascherman JA. AeroForm patient controlled tissue expansion and saline tissue expansion for breast reconstruction: a randomized controlled trial. Ann Plast Surg. 2014 May; 72 Suppl 1:S51-5.
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Spear SL, Seruya M, Rao SS, Rottman S, Stolle E, Cohen M, Rose KM, Parikh PM, Nahabedian MY. Two-stage prosthetic breast reconstruction using AlloDerm including outcomes of different timings of radiotherapy. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2012 Jul; 130(1):1-9.
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Venkataraman S, Hines N, Slanetz PJ. Challenges in mammography: part 2, multimodality review of breast augmentation--imaging findings and complications. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2011 Dec; 197(6):W1031-45.
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Spear SL, Parikh PM, Goldstein JA. History of breast implants and the food and drug administration. Clin Plast Surg. 2009 Jan; 36(1):15-21, v.
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Schanzer A, Wong GB. Air dissipation in saline breast implants. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2002 Jun; 109(7):2238-41.
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