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. 2017 Jul 19;4(1):68–72. doi: 10.1080/23320885.2017.1356202

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Figure 1. — Case 1: A 60-year-old woman who received 1 ml of hyaluronic acid (Volbella^®, Allergan, Dublin, Ireland) injections on each cheek to improve wrinkles. (A). Day 16: warm and swollen cheeks with multiple painful indurations and collections. (B). Magnetic resonance imaging at day 20: diffuse infiltration of cutaneous and subcutaneous tissues with confluent subcutaneous collections in both cheeks, the largest measuring 35 × 11 × 11 mm in the left cheek. (C). At 6 months, the patient presented aesthetic sequelae with inflammatory induration on both cheeks improved after daily physiotherapy and intense pulsed light therapy once a week.