For mary decades, Surgeons have searched for an easy, painless, and safe method to restore body contour. Innumerable materials have been used, with limitted success and a variety of complications.
We relate the problems encountered in caring for 125 patients who had complications developing from the injections or implantations of various materials for enlargement of contour.
We analyzed 125 patients who had been injected or implanted with foreign materials and has been treated at the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Soon Chun Hyang College Hospital, from Jan., 1978 to Dec., 1981.
The obtained results were as follows ;
1. The sex ratio ; Male : Female = 1(19) : 5.5(106)
2. The most frequent age at the first O. P. D. visit ; 30-39 (49.6%)
3. The most frequent age at the time of injection ; 20-29 (56.8%)
4. The onset of complication after injection, mostly ; 1-10yr. (64.8%)
5. The most frequent injection site ; Nose (69 cases, 55.2%)
6. The common complications were ;
a) Palpable mass.
b) Pain or tenderness.
c) swelling and induration.
d) redness or cyanosis.
e) displacement of foreign material.
f) inflammation with / without ulceration.
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