Dislodgement of tissue expander ports in a patient without trauma or MRI history

Tissue expansion is involved in the majority of breast reconstruction procedures in the United States. We describe a case of a 56-year-old woman who was found to have bilateral dislodged magnetic ports in her breast tissue expanders at her surgery to replace the expanders with permanent implants. An...

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Autores principales: Lowenthal, Catherine F., Truong, Albert Y., Ascherman, Jeffrey A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8626790/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34869818
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpra.2021.10.005
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description Tissue expansion is involved in the majority of breast reconstruction procedures in the United States. We describe a case of a 56-year-old woman who was found to have bilateral dislodged magnetic ports in her breast tissue expanders at her surgery to replace the expanders with permanent implants. An awareness that this can occur would be helpful for all plastic surgeons who perform breast reconstruction.
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spelling pubmed-86267902021-12-02 Dislodgement of tissue expander ports in a patient without trauma or MRI history Lowenthal, Catherine F. Truong, Albert Y. Ascherman, Jeffrey A. JPRAS Open Case Report Tissue expansion is involved in the majority of breast reconstruction procedures in the United States. We describe a case of a 56-year-old woman who was found to have bilateral dislodged magnetic ports in her breast tissue expanders at her surgery to replace the expanders with permanent implants. An awareness that this can occur would be helpful for all plastic surgeons who perform breast reconstruction. Elsevier 2021-10-24 /pmc/articles/PMC8626790/ /pubmed/34869818 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpra.2021.10.005 Text en © 2021 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8626790/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpra.2021.10.005
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