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dc.contributor.authorIsmael, T
dc.contributor.authorKelly, J
dc.contributor.authorRegan, P J
dc.date.accessioned2011-10-03T14:14:34Z
dc.date.available2011-10-03T14:14:34Z
dc.date.issued2005-10
dc.identifier.citationRupture of an expander prosthesis mimics axillary cancer recurrence. 2005, 58 (7):1027-8 Br J Plast Surgen
dc.identifier.issn0007-1226
dc.identifier.pmid16055100
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.bjps.2005.04.058
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10147/143783
dc.descriptionRegional silicone gel migration from a ruptured breast implant has been reported at different locations including the upper extremity, chest wall muscles, axilla and back. We report a patient who presented with an axillary mass that mimicked a regional recurrence 5 years after breast cancer reconstruction with a latissimus dorsi musculocutaneous flap and silicon gel expander-prosthesis. Surgical exploration revealed that the mass contained silicone gel around the port of the breast expander that had ruptured. The mass was confluent with an intracapsular silicone leak through a tract along the tube of the expander port.en
dc.description.abstractRegional silicone gel migration from a ruptured breast implant has been reported at different locations including the upper extremity, chest wall muscles, axilla and back. We report a patient who presented with an axillary mass that mimicked a regional recurrence 5 years after breast cancer reconstruction with a latissimus dorsi musculocutaneous flap and silicon gel expander-prosthesis. Surgical exploration revealed that the mass contained silicone gel around the port of the breast expander that had ruptured. The mass was confluent with an intracapsular silicone leak through a tract along the tube of the expander port.
dc.language.isoenen
dc.relation.urlhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0007122605001682en
dc.subject.meshBreast Implants
dc.subject.meshBreast Neoplasms
dc.subject.meshDiagnosis, Differential
dc.subject.meshFemale
dc.subject.meshForeign-Body Migration
dc.subject.meshGranuloma, Foreign-Body
dc.subject.meshHumans
dc.subject.meshLymphatic Diseases
dc.subject.meshLymphatic Metastasis
dc.subject.meshMiddle Aged
dc.subject.meshProsthesis Failure
dc.subject.meshSilicone Gels
dc.subject.meshTissue Expansion Devices
dc.titleRupture of an expander prosthesis mimics axillary cancer recurrence.en
dc.typeArticleen
dc.contributor.departmentPlastic Surgery Department, University College Hospital, Newcastle Road, Galway, Ireland. thamirss@hotmail.comen
dc.identifier.journalBritish journal of plastic surgeryen
dc.description.provinceConnacht
html.description.abstractRegional silicone gel migration from a ruptured breast implant has been reported at different locations including the upper extremity, chest wall muscles, axilla and back. We report a patient who presented with an axillary mass that mimicked a regional recurrence 5 years after breast cancer reconstruction with a latissimus dorsi musculocutaneous flap and silicon gel expander-prosthesis. Surgical exploration revealed that the mass contained silicone gel around the port of the breast expander that had ruptured. The mass was confluent with an intracapsular silicone leak through a tract along the tube of the expander port.


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