Posted On: August 15, 2014 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
HIGH PROFILE IMPLANTS This is a case study with a patient that I personally performed a breast augmentation 15 years ago on. She has developed a right ruptured implant and some bottoming out over the last15 years. At the time, only low profile implants were available. Low profile 390 cc saline implants were used. Scar […]
Read MorePosted On: August 10, 2014 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
We perform breast augmentations weekly. Both saline and silicone gel implants are used in our Beverly Hills Surgery Center. Interestingly, this is a case example of a silicone gel implant bleed. The patient underwent augmentation mammoplasty with silicone textured implants under the muscle by a different surgery approximately 13 years ago. Although the MRI does […]
Read MorePosted On: August 01, 2014 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
RUPTURED IMPLANT This is an excellent case example of a patient who left her saline implant in her chest for over two years. For some reason she declined to have the implant replaced until now that it has become painful. This is an obvious rupture on clinica examination. Mammogram also showed scar tissue contracture with […]
Read MorePosted On: July 15, 2014 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
The patient presents with an excellent case example of severe deformity and distortion of the right breast with ruptured silicone calcified breast implants. Preoperative evaluation shows hardening with severe encapsulation with silicone calcified granulomas in the right breast. Notice the disfigurement of the breast and the flattening of the inframammary fold down to the bottom […]
Read MorePosted On: July 10, 2014 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
As women age, the breasts may become saggier with more skin laxity, especially along the vertical and the inframammary fold regions. This may require a formal mastopexy concurrently with an augmentation mammoplasty procedure. Women in their 30s who have had children and have had weight fluctuations often present with severe ptosis, including grade 3 ptosis […]
Read MorePosted On: June 19, 2014 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
Cohesive Silicone Gel Yesterday I had Chris Hodges stop by from the implant company Sientra. As a board-certified plastic surgeon, it’s important to have a good working relationship with consultants from these types of companies and stay “abreast” of the latest technologies available. Sientra only provides their implants to board-certified plastic surgeons. I used Sientra’s cohesive […]
Read MorePosted On: May 19, 2014 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
SEVERE DOW CORNING BILATERAL RUPTURED SILICONE BAKER IV CAPSULAR CONTRACTURE SILICONE CALCIFIED GRANULOMAS The patient presents to the operating room today with bilateral 510 cc Dow Corning Silicone Gel Implants placed approximately 22 years ago. The implants were completely dissolved with the shell and piecemeal calcifications and silicone calcified granulomas notable throughout the entire breast. The patient […]
Read MorePosted On: May 14, 2014 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
GASTRIC BYPASS SURGERY The patient presents with significant weight loss notable 150 pounds after Roux-En-Y gastroplasty. She now has significant grade 3 ptosis, skin laxity and will undergo augmentation mammoplasty with high profile saline implants and a formal mastopexy using inferior pedicle Wise-pattern technique. This is extraordinarily complicated surgery associated with her breast showing different […]
Read MorePosted On: April 23, 2014 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
The patient to the right is status post augmentation mammoplasty procedure with high profile saline implants, who was involved in a blunt trauma where her right chest hit the steering column. Notice that there is significant swelling of the right breast. It is also engorged, enlarged and quite painful and she has developed scar tissue […]
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