Polyarthralgia after augmentation mammaplasty with saline-filled implants

✍ Scribed by F. X. Santos Heredero; E. Mayoral Semper

• Book ID: 104658459
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 986 KB
• Volume: 15
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1435-0130
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00193369

✦ Synopsis

A case of polyarthralgia and serological abnormalities after augmentation mammaplasty with saline-filled prostheses is reported. Although such systemic disease has been reported in relation to gel-filled implants, this type of syndrome is very rare in association with saline-filled implants. Possible etiopathogenic factors are suggested in order to find out the mechanism of systemic immunological disease when no silicone gel is present. Shearing of silicone dioxide molecules from the implant shell could possibly be associated with the development of adjuvant disease in the case reported. It is stressed, however, that no definite connection between silicone implants and human adjuvant disease has ever been demonstrated.