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The evaluation of the delayed swollen breast in patients with a history of breast implants

Frontiers in Oncology, 2023
Breast implants, whether placed for reconstructive or cosmetic purposes, are rarely lifetime devices. Rupture, resulting from compromised implant shell integrity, and capsular contracture caused by constriction of the specialized scar tissue that ...
Grace C. Keane, Alexandra M. Keane, Ryan Diederich, Kaitlyn Kennard, Eric J. Duncavage, Terence M. Myckatyn   +5 more
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The iBRA (implant breast reconstruction evaluation) study: protocol for a prospective multi-centre cohort study to inform the feasibility, design and conduct of a pragmatic randomised clinical trial comparing new techniques of implant-based breast reconstruction. [PDF]

, 2016
BACKGROUND: Implant-based breast reconstruction (IBBR) is the most commonly performed reconstructive procedure in the UK. The introduction of techniques to augment the subpectoral pocket has revolutionised the procedure, but there is a lack of high ...
Barnes, NL, Blazeby, JM, Branford, OA, Breast Reconstruction Research Collaborative, Conroy, EJ, Cutress, RI, Gardiner, MD, Holcombe, C, Jain, A, McEvoy, K, Mills, N, Mylvaganam, S, Potter, S, Skillman, JM, Teasdale, EM, Thrush, S, Whisker, LJ, Williamson, PR   +17 more
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An Online Calculator for Estimating Breast Implant Volume from Imaging

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Global Open, 2022
Summary:. Breast implant surgery remains one of the most common surgical procedures performed in the United States. Implant exchange can be complicated by unavailability of medical records or implant identification cards.
Kirby L. Mateja, BS, Aaron S. Long, BS, Sacha C. Hauc, MPH, Joshua Z. Glahn, BA, Clara F. Weber, Adam H. Junn, BS, Hui Yu Juan, BS, Pratheek S. Bobba, BS, John A. Persing, MD, Michael Alperovich, MD, MSc   +9 more
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Factors Affecting Lower-pole Stretch after Breast Augmentation

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Global Open, 2021
Background:. Breast augmentation surgical planning based on soft-tissue characteristics including the type of lower-pole pocket direction has been described.
Frederick G. Weniger, MD, MBA, FACS, Carlos E. Barrero, BS, Allan A. Weidman, BS, Sarah M. Amarillo, BA   +3 more
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Etiology of Breast Implant-Associated Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma (BIA-ALCL): Current Directions in Research

Cancers, 2020
Simple Summary The first report of breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma (BIA-ALCL) was in 1997. Although BIA-ALCL develops around breast implants, it is considered a cancer of the immune system and not a cancer of the breast ducts or ...
A. Deva, Suzanne D. Turner, Marshall E. Kadin, M. Magnusson, H. M. Prince, Roberto N Miranda, Giorgio G. Inghirami, William P. Adams   +7 more
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Prophylactic treatment of breast implants with a solution of gentamicin, vancomycin and cefazolin antibiotics for women undergoing breast reconstructive surgery: protocol for a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial (The BREAST-AB trial)

BMJ Open, 2022
Introduction Periprosthetic infection is one of the most severe complications following implant-based breast reconstruction affecting 5%–10% of the women.
Sebastian Wiberg, Camilla Bille, Thomas Bjarnsholt, Lisbet Rosenkrantz Hölmich, Lena Felicia Carstensen, Mathilde Nejrup Hemmingsen, Andreas Larsen, Tim K Weltz, Mathias Ørholt, Anne Karen Bennedsen, Lisa Toft Jensen, Rikke Bredgaard, Vibeke Koudahl, Volker Jürgen Schmidt, Peter Vester-Glowinski, Søren J Sørensen, Tine Damsgaard, Mikkel Herly   +17 more
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Breast Implants and Cancer [PDF]

JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 1997
Although silicone breast implants have been linked to various short-term complications, less is known about their long-range effects. Most attention has focused on connective tissue disorders, but the range of immunologic disturbances observed in women with implants suggests that consideration also be given to other chronic diseases, including cancer ...
L A Brinton, S L Brown
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Implant to Fat: A Breast Augmentation Technique Validated by BREAST-Q

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Global Open, 2020
Background:. Implant-based breast augmentation is the number one cosmetic procedure performed in the United States. However, it is associated with relatively high revision rates, reaching up to 24% at 4 years.
Hossam Tahseen, MD, Mina Fayek, MBBCh, MSc, Dawlat Emara, MD, Ahmed A. Taha, MD, PhD   +3 more
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Use of Needle Localization in the Surgical Management of Non-seroma, Mass-forming BIA-ALCL

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Global Open, 2022
Summary:. Outcomes related to the treatment of breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma, a rare extranodal T-cell lymphoma associated with textured breast implants, are largely dependent on the successful resection to negative margins via
David H. Kim, MD, Theresa K. Webster, BS, Joseph G. Bartolacci, PhD, Sthefano Araya, MD, Juliet Panichella, BS, Sameer A. Patel, MD   +5 more
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Prototheca wickerhamii breast implant infection after reconstructive surgery: a new level of complexity

Medical Mycology Case Reports, 2021
We report the first published case of Prototheca wickerhamii breast implant infection. This occurred after mastectomy, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, breast reconstruction, implant revisions and breast seroma aspirations and was preceded by polymicrobial ...
Joanne S.K. Teh, Amalie E. Wilke, Simon M. Overstall, Jasmine C. Teng, Ruth Chin, Jennifer M. Couper, Christine A. Lo, Lynette J. Waring, David A. Sheffield   +8 more
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