Posted On: April 15, 2015 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
INFECTED BREAST IMPLANTS – COSTA RICA This patient presents with breast implants placed in Costa Rica in which she pusses out and ended up with severe abscesses. Implants were removed in Costa Rica three months later. She is now seen one year later, traveling to Beverly Hills for reconstruction. On a close-up view of the […]
Read MorePosted On: November 11, 2014 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
This patient presents from Korea with severe scar tissue contracture with ruptured silicone implants causing constriction and malposition of the right nipple areolar complex. She has complete loss of medial cleavage. See her preoperative photographs showing severe encapsulation and painful breast deformity. The patient underwent bilateral open periprosthetic capsulectomy, circumferential open capsulotomy,removal of all ruptured […]
Read MorePosted 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 23, 2014 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
BEVERLY HILLS This patient presents with severe disfigurement, left superior retroposition of her implant, with scar tissue contracture with painful breast deformity left breast. Patient has had multiple surgeries by multiple surgeons without relief of her problem. Note, the left implant is elevated superiorly. There is complete loss of the lower portion of her breast. […]
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: May 19, 2014 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
SEVERE DOW CORNING BILATERAL RUPTURED SILICONE BAKER IV CAPSULAR CONTRACTURE SILICONE CALCIFIED GRANULOMASThe 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 desired […]
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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