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Migration and chemical modification of silicone in women with breast prostheses |
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| Authors: | Leoncio Garrido Bettina Pfleiderer Bruce G. Jenkins Carol A. Hulka Daniel B. Kopans |
| Abstract: | Studies using magnetic resonance spectroscopy in human volunteers to evaluate their livers in vivo and to analyze their blood in vitro suggest that there are measurable amounts of silicon compounds in the blood of some women with implants and that there is migration of silicone to other organs such as the liver. |
| Keywords: | silicone migration chemical modification 1H and 29Si NMR |