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Late Seroma in Breast Implants: A Coronavirus Disease 2019 Phenomenon?
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has been challenging in all aspects of the medical field with new clinical presentations constantly arising. Plastic surgeons are not immune to this and need to be aware of their implications. There has been a recent report of late periprosthetic sero...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9507605/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36159375 http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0042-1756295 |
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description | The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has been challenging in all aspects of the medical field with new clinical presentations constantly arising. Plastic surgeons are not immune to this and need to be aware of their implications. There has been a recent report of late periprosthetic seroma (breast implant) as a clinical manifestation of COVID-19 infection. To our knowledge, this phenomenon has not been further reported. We present a 53-year-old immunocompromised lady who developed late seroma after COVID-19 infection. She eventually required explantation of the implant and is awaiting autologous reconstruction. It is likely that we will increasingly continue to see this phenomenon of implant complications as a result of COVID-19 infection and should be watchful, especially regarding potential immunocompromised patients. |
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spelling | pubmed-95076052022-09-24 Late Seroma in Breast Implants: A Coronavirus Disease 2019 Phenomenon? Chan, Stephanie L.S Mok, James Wan Loong Arch Plast Surg The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has been challenging in all aspects of the medical field with new clinical presentations constantly arising. Plastic surgeons are not immune to this and need to be aware of their implications. There has been a recent report of late periprosthetic seroma (breast implant) as a clinical manifestation of COVID-19 infection. To our knowledge, this phenomenon has not been further reported. We present a 53-year-old immunocompromised lady who developed late seroma after COVID-19 infection. She eventually required explantation of the implant and is awaiting autologous reconstruction. It is likely that we will increasingly continue to see this phenomenon of implant complications as a result of COVID-19 infection and should be watchful, especially regarding potential immunocompromised patients. Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc. 2022-09-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9507605/ /pubmed/36159375 http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0042-1756295 Text en The Korean Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons. This is an open access article published by Thieme under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonDerivative-NonCommercial License, permitting copying and reproduction so long as the original work is given appropriate credit. Contents may not be used for commercial purposes, or adapted, remixed, transformed or built upon. ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ ) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License, which permits unrestricted reproduction and distribution, for non-commercial purposes only; and use and reproduction, but not distribution, of adapted material for non-commercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Chan, Stephanie L.S Mok, James Wan Loong Late Seroma in Breast Implants: A Coronavirus Disease 2019 Phenomenon? |
title | Late Seroma in Breast Implants: A Coronavirus Disease 2019 Phenomenon? |
title_full | Late Seroma in Breast Implants: A Coronavirus Disease 2019 Phenomenon? |
title_fullStr | Late Seroma in Breast Implants: A Coronavirus Disease 2019 Phenomenon? |
title_full_unstemmed | Late Seroma in Breast Implants: A Coronavirus Disease 2019 Phenomenon? |
title_short | Late Seroma in Breast Implants: A Coronavirus Disease 2019 Phenomenon? |
title_sort | late seroma in breast implants: a coronavirus disease 2019 phenomenon? |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9507605/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36159375 http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0042-1756295 |
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