MIGRATION OF SILICONE GEL TO AXILLARY LYMPH-NODES AFTER PROSTHETIC MAMMOPLASTY

  • 1 January 1981
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 105  (7) , 371-372
Abstract
Foreign-body reaction to material optically resembling silicone gel was evident in an axillary lymph node of a woman 8 yr after mastectomy for fibrocystic disease and breast reconstruction with a silicone gel-filled prosthesis. The lymph node was removed as a component of a radical mastectomy for adenocarcinoma and Paget''s disease of the nipple that had developed in the residual breast tissue and preserved nipple. Silicone gel may filter through a structurally intact prosthetic envelope and subsequently migrate to regional lymph nodes.

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