FOREIGN-BODY REACTION TO SILICONE GEL IN AXILLARY LYMPH NODES AFTER AN AUGMENTATION MAMMAPLASTY

1 September 1978

journal article
case report
Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Vol. 62 (3) , 381-384
https://doi.org/10.1097/00006534-197809000-00007

Abstract

A radical mastectomy was performed for a breast adenocarcinoma occurring 10 years after a subpectoral augmentation mammaplasty with silicone gel-filled prostheses. A foreign-body reaction to silicone was seen in two of the axillary lymph nodes resected.

Keywords

GEL
FOREIGN BODY REACTION
AXILLARY LYMPH NODES
REACTION TO SILICONE

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