Episode of massive pulmonary embolism after bilateral breast augmentation

Pulmonary embolism is a rare postsurgical complication, even more so following breast augmentation. Herein we present a case of a 23-year-old woman who survived an episode of massive pulmonary embolism after breast implant surgery. Current literature about this subject is very scarce.

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Autores principales: Schonauer, Fabrizio, Nele, Gisella, Di Martino, Annalena, Santoro, Mariangela, Santanelli di Pompeo, Fabio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2015
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4793791/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27252978
http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/23320885.2015.1112747
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author Schonauer, Fabrizio
Nele, Gisella
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spelling pubmed-47937912016-06-01 Episode of massive pulmonary embolism after bilateral breast augmentation Schonauer, Fabrizio Nele, Gisella Di Martino, Annalena Santoro, Mariangela Santanelli di Pompeo, Fabio Case Reports Plast Surg Hand Surg Case Reports Pulmonary embolism is a rare postsurgical complication, even more so following breast augmentation. Herein we present a case of a 23-year-old woman who survived an episode of massive pulmonary embolism after breast implant surgery. Current literature about this subject is very scarce. Taylor & Francis 2015-12-10 /pmc/articles/PMC4793791/ /pubmed/27252978 http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/23320885.2015.1112747 Text en © 2015 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4793791/
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