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Form-Stable Highly Cohesive gel Breast Implants [PDF]
Archives of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, 2013 Highly cohesive, form-stable cohesive gel implants were introduced in 1993. This resulted in a paradigm shift in breast augmentation surgery. With the introduction of shaped textured implants, surgeon started to think in terms of shape and dimensions ...
Youngdae Lee, Young Seok Kim, Ji Ye Kim
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A Rare Complication of Silicone Breast Implant Rupture
Annals of Internal Medicine: Clinical Cases, 2023 Rupture of silicone breast implants is common with the time spent in situ but often goes undetected. We encountered a 55-year-old woman who presented with symptoms attributable to hypercalcemia after undergoing the removal of ruptured silicone breast ...
Sateesh Sakhamuri +4 more
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TRPM8 levels determine tumor vulnerability to channel agonists
Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.TRPM8 is a Ca2+ permissive channel. Regardless of the amount of its transcript, high levels of TRPM8 protein mark different tumors, including prostate, breast, colorectal, and lung carcinomas. Targeting TRPM8 with channel agonists stimulates inward calcium currents followed by emptying of cytosolic Ca2+ stores in cancer cells.
Alessandro Alaimo +18 more
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Breast-Shape Classification and Implant Construction Method for Unilateral Breast Reconstruction
IEEE Access, 2019 Unilateral breast reconstruction is different from bilateral breast reconstruction and breast augmentation, as it requires more consideration of the symmetry between the reconstructed breast and the contralateral breast.
Liqian Wang +7 more
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Quality of life and aesthetic results after mastectomy and mammary reconstruction [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Cirurgia Plástica, 2019 Introduction: Due to the increased incidence of breast cancer, the demand for breast reconstruction has been increasing, along with concerns regarding the satisfaction and quality of life of the patients.
Marcela Caetano Cammarota +7 more
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“Can you hear me now?”: Insurance Coverage for Hearing Benefits in the United States [PDF]
, 2015 Public and private insurance coverage for hearing benefits underscores the gaps in coverage for treating hearing loss in the U.S. The commodification of the hearing benefits sector of healthcare in this country has detrimental consequences for personal ...
Whipple, Reegan
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Health considerations for transgender women and remaining unknowns : a narrative review [PDF]
, 2019 Transgender (trans) women (TW) were assigned male at birth but have a female gender identity or gender expression. The literature on management and health outcomes of TW has grown recently with more publication of research.
Defreyne, Justine +6 more
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Aesthetic surgery journal, 2017 Background Silicone breast implants have been in use for breast augmentation for more than 50 years, but technological innovation has been lacking in implant design until recently.
M. Sforza +8 more
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Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Non‐thermal plasma treatment of melanoma cells induced epithelial‐mesenchymal transition (EMT) in a dose‐dependent fashion. This report highlights the critical need to further investigate potential adverse effects of non‐thermal plasma for cancer therapy and to optimize treatment parameters for clinical translation. Despite the promising results of non‐
Eline Biscop +10 more
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Association between Silicone Breast Implants and Autoimmune Diseases
Gazeta Médica, 2017 BACKGROUND AND AIM: Silicone breast implants have, for a long time, been considered as biologically inert and harmless. However the relationship between silicone breast implants and the risk of autoimmune diseases has generated intense medical interest ...
Rute Carvalho +3 more
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