Cutaneous Silicone Granuloma Mimicking Breast Cancer after Ruptured Breast Implant

Cutaneous manifestations due to migration of silicone from ruptured implants are rare. Migrated silicone with cutaneous involvement has been found in the chest wall, abdominal wall, and lower extremities. We describe a case of cutaneous silicone granuloma in the breast exhibiting unusual growth mimi...

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Autores principales: El-Charnoubi, Waseem Asim Ghulam, Foged Henriksen, Trine, Joergen Elberg, Jens
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3505939/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23198167
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/129138
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author El-Charnoubi, Waseem Asim Ghulam
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description Cutaneous manifestations due to migration of silicone from ruptured implants are rare. Migrated silicone with cutaneous involvement has been found in the chest wall, abdominal wall, and lower extremities. We describe a case of cutaneous silicone granuloma in the breast exhibiting unusual growth mimicking breast cancer after a ruptured implant.
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spelling pubmed-35059392012-11-29 Cutaneous Silicone Granuloma Mimicking Breast Cancer after Ruptured Breast Implant El-Charnoubi, Waseem Asim Ghulam Foged Henriksen, Trine Joergen Elberg, Jens Case Rep Dermatol Med Case Report Cutaneous manifestations due to migration of silicone from ruptured implants are rare. Migrated silicone with cutaneous involvement has been found in the chest wall, abdominal wall, and lower extremities. We describe a case of cutaneous silicone granuloma in the breast exhibiting unusual growth mimicking breast cancer after a ruptured implant. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011 2012-01-26 /pmc/articles/PMC3505939/ /pubmed/23198167 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/129138 Text en Copyright © 2011 Waseem Asim Ghulam El-Charnoubi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Cutaneous Silicone Granuloma Mimicking Breast Cancer after Ruptured Breast Implant
title Cutaneous Silicone Granuloma Mimicking Breast Cancer after Ruptured Breast Implant
title_full Cutaneous Silicone Granuloma Mimicking Breast Cancer after Ruptured Breast Implant
title_fullStr Cutaneous Silicone Granuloma Mimicking Breast Cancer after Ruptured Breast Implant
title_full_unstemmed Cutaneous Silicone Granuloma Mimicking Breast Cancer after Ruptured Breast Implant
title_short Cutaneous Silicone Granuloma Mimicking Breast Cancer after Ruptured Breast Implant
title_sort cutaneous silicone granuloma mimicking breast cancer after ruptured breast implant
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3505939/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23198167
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/129138
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