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. 2024 Dec 20;12(12):e6402.
doi: 10.1097/GOX.0000000000006402. eCollection 2024 Dec.

Breast Implant Removal Surgery: A Data-driven Look at Growing Trends

Samuel Knoedler  1   2 , Michael Alfertshofer  3 , Daniel J Rams  4 , Dany Y Matar  2 , Leonard Knoedler  1   5 , Giuseppe Sofo  6 , Sören Könneker  7 , Bong-Sung Kim  7 , Dennis P Orgill  2 , Adriana C Panayi  2   5 , Thilo L Schenck  3
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Breast Implant Removal Surgery: A Data-driven Look at Growing Trends

Samuel Knoedler et al. Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open. .
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Fig. 1.
Fig. 1.
Graphical representation of the trends in annual BIRS procedures (purple) compared with the total number of cases in the ACS-NSQIP database (“All,” light blue) and the annual number of mastectomy (“M”; turquoise) patients. The exact procedural statistics are presented in Table 1.
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