[Alteration of general state in a woman with polyethylene breast implants since 1967. About an exceptional clinical...

We report the case of a patient with mammary implants for 42 years. She presented for three years a change of the general state with clinicobiological demonstrations of indefinite origin, and a progressive bilateral increase of her mammary volume until it became exceptional. The surgery of explantation allowed the retreat of two masses of almost 6kg. The analysis did not put in evidence any malignant process but confirmed that it was about prostheses in polyethylene. In one year of recession, a considerable improvement of her general state was observed.