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Breast implant causes allergic contact dermatitis or foreign body reaction?
Hilde M Bosker1, Jorrit B Terra1, Martin M Stenekes2
1Department of Dermatology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Case Reports in Plastic Surgery & Hand Surgery
|January 18, 2021
Abstract:
In this case report we describe a 55-year-old Caucasian female who had developed an itching, erythematous plaque on the right breast seven months after she received a permanent tissue expander. Topical corticosteroids had no effect upon which a capsulectomy was performed and the complaints disappeared.
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