Sentences with phrase «implants near the skin»

In rare cases, patients with allergies to metals develop persistent skin rashes after metal devices are implanted near the skin.

The finding suggests that patients with metal implants near the skin may need to be monitored for this type of inflammation, according to the researchers.

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As well as having wires surgically inserted into the brain, recipients also get a power supply for the wires implanted under the skin near their collar bones.

And when these implants are placed near the skin, fewer than 5 percent of patients develop an inflammatory rash related to the implant.

The pulse generator is implanted under the skin like a pacemaker, just below the collar bone, and a wire is threaded into one of the veins near the phrenic nerve.

Most pacemakers are implanted under the skin near the collarbone.