Posted 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 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: 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 […]
Read MorePosted On: January 14, 2014 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
SEVERE BAKER IV CAPSULAR CONTRACTURE The patient below presents with severe Baker IV capsular contracture with encapsulation. Baker IV capsular contractures are usually associated with painful hardened breasts with severe distortion and may be associated with coldness and loss of sensitivity as well. This patient presents with severe encapsulation and hardening with a Baker IV […]
Read MorePosted On: October 18, 2013 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
Patients in my practice present with both acute and chronic seromas status post blunt trauma to the chest after a breast augmentation procedure. The seroma is simply a water serous fluid that the body creates after a tear in the capsule. Capsular tear may lead to this fluid accumulation which can differ in size, between […]
Read MorePosted On: October 07, 2013 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
The patient below presents with a significant amount of skin laxity with her low profile implants which she desires to have replaced for upper pole fullness and narrowing of the lateral breast. The patient presents with breast dysphoria due to the flattening appearance of her low profile saline implants placed by a different surgeon through […]
Read MorePosted On: October 01, 2013 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
The patient presents with severe breast deformity with a double inframammary fold due to inadequate release of the parasternal attachments of the pectoralis major muscle as well as bottoming out of her bilateral breast. Her reconstruction required bilateral open periprosthetic capsulectomy, circumferential open capsulotomy, removal and replacement with high profile saline implants and release of […]
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