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Silicon leak from breast implant rupture

Case contributed by Garth Kruger
Diagnosis certain

Presentation

Routine diagnostic mammography

Patient Data

Age: 70 years
Gender: Female

MLO view right breast in 2009

mammography

No complaints form this 70 year old who had breast prostheses placed 23 years ago.

In 2013

mammography

Conventional views right breast 2013.

Case Discussion

Free silicon from a ruptured prosthesis in the parenchyma of the right breast.

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