breast implants

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• Polypropylene breast implants — Polypropylene breast implants, also known as string breast implants, are a form of breast implant using polypropylene developed by Dr. Gerald W. Johnson. Due to a number of medical complications, the device has been banned in the European Union… …   Wikipedia

• Breast reduction — or reduction mammoplasty is an outpatient surgical procedure [ Breast Implants 411 [http://breastimplants411.com/dbii/articles.asp Article ID=265 The Minimal Incision Breast Reduction or Lift ] which involves the reduction in the size of breasts… …   Wikipedia

• Breast reconstruction — is the rebuilding of a breast, usually in women. It involves using autologous tissue or prosthetic material to construct a natural looking breast. Often this includes the reformation of a natural looking areola and nipple. This procedure involves …   Wikipedia

• Breast cancer screening — refers to the medical screening of asymptomatic, apparently healthy women for breast cancer in an attempt to achieve an earlier diagnosis. The assumption is that early detection will improve outcomes. A number of screening test have been employed …   Wikipedia

• Breast implant — A breast implant is a prosthesis used to enlarge the size of a woman s breasts (known as breast augmentation, breast enlargement, mammoplasty enlargement, augmentation mammoplasty or the common slang term boob job) for cosmetic reasons; to… …   Wikipedia

• Breast — The milk engorged breast of a pregnant woman …   Wikipedia

• Breast Cancer Network of Strength — The Breast Cancer Network of Strength (formerly known as Y ME National Breast Cancer Organization, or Y ME) [cite web|url=http://www.networkofstrength.org/media/releases/brand release.pdf|title=Y ME National Breast Cancer Organization announces… …   Wikipedia

• Breast cancer treatment — The mainstay of breast cancer treatment is surgery when the tumor is localized, with possible adjuvant hormonal therapy (with tamoxifen or an aromatase inhibitor), chemotherapy, and/or radiotherapy. At present, the treatment recommendations after …   Wikipedia

• Breast Men — Infobox film name = Breast Men caption = director = Lawrence O Neil producer = Guy Riedel writer = John Stockwell starring = David Schwimmer Chris Cooper music = Dennis McCarthy cinematography = Robert M. Stevens editing = Michael Jablow… …   Wikipedia

• breast enlargement — /ˈbrɛst ɛnladʒmənt/ (say brest enlahjmuhnt) noun a surgical procedure to insert breast implants to increase the size of breasts. Also, breast augmentation …  

• breast implant — a prosthesis to replace breast tissue that has been removed surgically during a simple mastectomy in the treatment of breast cancer. The type of implant in current use is a silicone sac filled with silicone gel; it has recently been found that… …   Medical dictionary