Review Article

Fundamentals of Breast Implant Illness and Device Imaging

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(a–f). A 34-year-old patient with silicone implants for 8 years. Breast ultrasonography shows thickening of the breast implant capsule, associated with pericapsular edema (yellow arrow). Figures b and c show increase in vascularity at the inflammatory site at collor (a) and spectral (b) images. Figures d and f show the hard pattern of the diseased capsule at elastography. The histology of the area shows inflammatory cells as lymphocytes (red arrow) and foamy histiocytes (green arrow) associated with silicone corpuscles (blue arrow).
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