Plastic and reconstructive surgery
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Plast. Reconstr. Surg. · Sep 1978
Case ReportsForeign-body reaction to silicone gel in axillary lymph nodes after an augmentation mammaplasty.
A radical mastectomy was performed for a breast adenocarcinoma occurring 10 years after a subpectoral augmentation mammaplasty with silicone gel-filled prostheses. A foreign-body reaction to silicone was seen in two of the axillary lymph nodes resected.