Review Article

Fundamentals of Breast Implant Illness and Device Imaging

Figure 13

(a–e). Patients with textured breast implants with BIA-ALCL diagnosis presenting a sudden volumetric increase in the left breast. Microscopy shows neovascularization inside the implant in the orange arrow (a and b). The green arrow shows the pedicle in the textured surface (green asterisk), and in the smooth surface, there are fat infiltration (blue triangle) and surface degradation (yellow asterisk) in figure c (c). In the SPIR sequence, it is possible to see vascularization from the capsule to the implant (d and e) in the orange arrow.