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Eight years following bilateral augmentation mammaplasty, a penetrating glass injury resulted in perforation of one of the patient's breast prostheses. The case is described.
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Briffa, J.E., Jaffe, W. Penetrating injury to a breast implant. Eur J Plast Surg 17, 208–209 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00188566
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00188566