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Combined Breast Implant Explantation and Multilevel Mastopexy Technique
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Global Open, 2019 Patients dissatisfied with their breast implants are faced with 2 options: secondary augmentation or removal of the implants. Simple removal of breast implants often leads to wide, deflated, and laterally displaced breasts which are notoriously difficult
Amiram Borenstein, MD, Or Friedman, MD
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Breast implant-associated anaplastic large-cell lymphoma: a systematic literature review [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Cirurgia Plástica, 2019 Breast implant-associated anaplastic large-cell lymphoma (BIA-ALCL) is a newly discovered and rare cancer possibly associated with textured breast implants. This literature review investigates its epidemiology, pathophysiology, and risk factors.
Daniel Sundfeld Spiga Real +1 more
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Breast Augmentation for Ptosis: Effective Upward Rotation of the Nipple [PDF]
Archives of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, 2014 Background For the correction of small ptotic breasts, augmentation mastopexy provides a better shape than other techniques, but its periareolar or vertical scar is a limiting factor. Subglandular augmentation tends to increase ptosis.
Jinseok Park
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The acceleration of metastases after tumor removal and the paradoxical phenomenon of concomitant tumor resistance [PDF]
, 2018 Although surgical extirpation of tumors is usually clinically recommended, tumor removal may entail an undesired side effect: the risk of accelerating the growth of metastases.
Chiarella, Paula +3 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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Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Global Open, 2023 Background:. Breast augmentation with anatomic implants can achieve a natural look, but over time, implant-related complications can occur. This includes a risk of potential rotation, which can cause a change in breast shape.
Marie Jaeger, MD +2 more
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Measuring Platinum Levels in Hair in Women with Silicone Breast Implants and Systemic Symptoms
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Global Open, 2022 Background:. It has been suggested that compounds present in silicone breast implants (eg, silicone particles or heavy metals such as platinum) migrate into the body and can cause systemic symptoms in susceptible women, causing what is known as breast ...
K.A. Spit, MD +3 more
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Biodurability of Poly Implant Prothèse (PIP) breast implants: A prospective analysis of 1028 prostheses in 514 patients [PDF]
, 2018 Poly Implant Prothèse (PIP) was a company that manufactured substandard breast implants using cheaper non-medical grade silicon. Around 40,000 women in the UK are thought to have PIP implants inserted(1).
Basheer, Mohammed Haj +4 more
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Materials, 2018 Breast implantation either for cosmetic or reconstructive e purposes is one of the most common procedures performed in plastic surgery. Biofilm infection is hypothesised to be involved in the development of both capsular contracture and anaplastic large ...
Maria Mempin +4 more
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The "Game of Implants": A Perspective on the Crisis-Prone History of Breast Implants.
Aesthetic surgery journal, 2019 Since their introduction into the market, breast implants have been the subject of many controversies. It is timely to examine the forces that have shaped the breast implant industry to make it what it is today.
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