Peculiar Mammographic and Ultrasonographic Findings of a Retained Silastic Drain in the Breast

Foreign bodies, such as surgical sponges or drains, are sometimes retained after surgical procedures.1 Retention of a drain in the breast tissue postoperatively is an unusual complication. This report describes two cases of characteristic sonographic findings related to retained silastic drains foll...

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Autores principales: Son, Eun Ju, Oh, Ki Keun, Kim, Eun-Kyung
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Yonsei University College of Medicine 2006
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2687765/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17066523
http://dx.doi.org/10.3349/ymj.2006.47.5.752
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spelling pubmed-26877652009-06-04 Peculiar Mammographic and Ultrasonographic Findings of a Retained Silastic Drain in the Breast Son, Eun Ju Oh, Ki Keun Kim, Eun-Kyung Yonsei Med J Case Report Foreign bodies, such as surgical sponges or drains, are sometimes retained after surgical procedures.1 Retention of a drain in the breast tissue postoperatively is an unusual complication. This report describes two cases of characteristic sonographic findings related to retained silastic drains following breast surgery. Yonsei University College of Medicine 2006-10-31 2006-10-31 /pmc/articles/PMC2687765/ /pubmed/17066523 http://dx.doi.org/10.3349/ymj.2006.47.5.752 Text en Copyright © 2006 The Yonsei University College of Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Peculiar Mammographic and Ultrasonographic Findings of a Retained Silastic Drain in the Breast
title Peculiar Mammographic and Ultrasonographic Findings of a Retained Silastic Drain in the Breast
title_full Peculiar Mammographic and Ultrasonographic Findings of a Retained Silastic Drain in the Breast
title_fullStr Peculiar Mammographic and Ultrasonographic Findings of a Retained Silastic Drain in the Breast
title_full_unstemmed Peculiar Mammographic and Ultrasonographic Findings of a Retained Silastic Drain in the Breast
title_short Peculiar Mammographic and Ultrasonographic Findings of a Retained Silastic Drain in the Breast
title_sort peculiar mammographic and ultrasonographic findings of a retained silastic drain in the breast
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2687765/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17066523
http://dx.doi.org/10.3349/ymj.2006.47.5.752
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