%0 Journal Article
%T Estado confusional, lesi¨®n pulmonar y gl¨˛teos que languidecen. Efectos secundarios de procedimientos est¨¦ticos
%A PeŁża-Varela
%A Juli¨˘n
%A Jim¨¦nez-Navarrete
%A Manuel Fco
%J Acta M¨¦dica Costarricense
%D 2009
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X aesthetic procedures performed by non medical personnel are increasing in frequency. many are not medical controlled and cause side effects from mild to serious. we present the case of a 29-year-old woman, with no relevant health problems, who went to a aesthetics center to have organic silicon injected into her buttocks to increase volume, developing later a massive pulmonary embolism syndrome.
%K massive embolism syndrome
%K organic silicium.
%U http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0001-60022009000100010&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en