Successful secondary augmentation mammoplasty after Mycobacterium thermoresistibile infection –  a case report

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Ignacio Piedra Buena, MD

Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires

4190 Peron St., 1st. floor (C1991ABB)

Buenos Aires, Argentina

ignacio.piedra@hospitalitaliano.org.ar

Submitted: 19. 7. 2024

Accepted: 1. 1. 2025