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- Title
Axillary silicone lymphadenopathy secondary to augmentation mammaplasty.
- Authors
Dragoumis, Dimitrios M; Assimaki, Anthoula S; Vrizas, Triantafyllos I; Tsiftsoglou, Aris P
- Abstract
We report a case involving a 45-year-old woman, who presented with an axillary mass 10 years after bilateral cosmetic augmentation mammaplasty. A lump was detected in the left axilla, and subsequent mammography and magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated intracapsular rupture of the left breast prosthesis. An excisional biopsy of the left axillary lesion and replacement of the ruptured implant was performed. Histological analysis showed that the axillary lump was lymph nodes containing large amounts of silicone. Silicone lymphadenopathy is an obscure complication of procedures involving the use of silicone. It is thought to occur following the transit of silicone droplets from breast implants to lymph nodes by macrophages and should always be considered as a differential diagnosis in patients in whom silicone prostheses are present.
- Publication
Indian journal of plastic surgery : official publication of the Association of Plastic Surgeons of India, 2010, Vol 43, Issue 2, p206
- ISSN
1998-376X
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.4103/0970-0358.73453