Migration of silicone gel to axillary lymph nodes after prosthetic mammoplasty.

Abstract

Foreign-body reaction to material optically resembling silicone gel was evident in an axillary lymph node of a patient eight years after subcutaneous mastectomy for fibrocystic disease and breast reconstruction with a silicone gel-filled prosthesis. The lymph nodes. was removed as a component of a radical mastectomy for adenocarcinoma and Paget's disease of the nipple that had developed in the residual breast tissue and preserved nipple. Silicone gel may "bleed" through a structurally intact prosthetic envelope and subsequently migrate to regional lymph nodes

• Authors: R J Hausner, F J Schoen, M A Mendez-Fernandez, W S Henly, R C Geis
• Journal: Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine (Arch Pathol Lab Med) Vol. 105 Issue 7 Pg. 371-2 (Jul 1981) ISSN: 0003-9985 [Print] United States
• PMID: 7018454 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article)

Chemical References

• Silicones

Topics

• Axilla
• Breast (surgery)
• Female
• Foreign Bodies (complications)
• Foreign-Body Migration (complications)
• Foreign-Body Reaction
• Humans
• Lymph Nodes (analysis)
• Prostheses and Implants (adverse effects)
• Silicones (analysis)