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Breast capsule persistence after breast implant removal
W B Rockwell1, H D Casey, C A Cheng
1Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City 84132, USA.
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
|March 26, 1998
Abstract:
Breast implant capsules are a foreign body immune response to breast implants. It has been proposed that capsulectomy after breast implant removal was unnecessary, as the body resorbs the capsule when the implant, the impetus for the foreign body response, is removed. We report eight women with persistent capsules 10 months to 17 years after silicone breast implant removal.