Injectable fluid silicone therapy. Human morbidity and mortality

Ellenbogen, R.; Rubin, L.

JAMA 234(3): 308-309

1975


ISSN/ISBN: 0098-7484
PMID: 1174244
Document Number: 89803
Four patients who had received silicone injections had the following complications: migration, hepatic disease manifested as granulomatous hepatitis (previously undescribed, to our knowledge), hypopigmentation, and death. Silicone should now be considered as a possible cause of hepatic granulomas in an appropriate host.

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