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Facial Fillers

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Injectable filler materials are used for cosmetic purposes, including smoothing wrinkles, effacing acne scars, restoring youthful tissue volume, and treating HIV lipoatrophy.

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  1. Department of Radiology, University of Chicago, Pritzker Medical School, Chicago, IL, USA

    Daniel Thomas Ginat MD, MS

  2. Department of Radiology, Beverly Tower Wilshire Advanced Imaging, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Charles J. Schatz MD, FACR

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  1. Department of Radiology, University of Chicago, Pritzker Medical School, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Daniel Thomas Ginat

  2. Department of Radiology, Lahey Clinic, Burlington, Massachusetts, USA

    Juan E. Small

  3. Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Pamela Whitney Schaefer

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Ginat, D.T., Schatz, C.J. (2015). Facial Fillers. In: Ginat, D., Small, J., Schaefer, P. (eds) Neuroimaging Pharmacopoeia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12715-6_45

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