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G Zoccali1, N Lomartire, G Mascaretti

  • 1Department of Surgical Sciences, University of L'Aquila, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, L'Aquila, Italy.

Clinical and Experimental Obstetrics & Gynecology
|August 30, 2008
PubMed

Augmentation mammoplasty is the most frequent request among esthetic surgery procedures but numerous controversies have been raised about the security of the silicone gel prostheses. Today a new question needs an answer: is the prosthesis a risk factor for pregnancy? In this paper the results of a hematochemical study performed on a group of patients with term pregnancies and silicone gel breast implants (group A) compared with a control group without implants (B) are described. For laboratory screening the valuation of antibody (TRIM) and silicone concentrations in blood and maternal milk and in neonate blood was performed.

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