Posted 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: 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: 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: May 05, 2014 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
The last day of the Aesthetic Meeting in San Francisco was April 28, 2014 – hard to believe it’s already been a full week since then. I always enjoy this meeting, and, as I stated a few weeks back, I enjoy receiving the education needed to stay at the top of my craft, improve patient […]
Read MorePosted On: March 24, 2014 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
The patient presents with very severe breast asymmetry. Her breasts are different in size and shape. Notice the left breast is larger and lower. There is more skin laxity. It was decided she would undergo high profile saline implants with two different sizes with a 465 cc high profile placed on the left and a […]
Read MorePosted On: March 07, 2014 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
REQUIRING FULL BREAST LIFT The patient is an Armenian female presenting with severe weight loss which has caused her breasts to sag quite a bit. Not only a lot of loose skin, but the left breast is significantly wider and larger than the right. The patient is now post op four weeks after surgery, her […]
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