Side effects in breast implants related to radiotherapy in breast cancer reconstructive surgery.

Breast reconstructive surgery with silicone implants is routinely one of the techniques performed immediately after a mastectomy and before adjuvant radiotherapy. Implant shell degradation may result in gel bleeding that can trigger capsular disease. The silicone corpuscle in contact with the implant fibrous capsule can promote an inflammatory reaction, identified as silicone-induced granuloma which is, related to clinical complaints referred to as breast implant illness.

New elastographic classification of breast lesions during and after compression.

Purpose: Proposal for the classification of breast masses through ultrasound elastography in order to differentiate benign and malignant lesions with histological correlation.

Materials And Methods: 188 patients enrolled for percutaneous biopsy of 228 breast lesions. Elastography was performed and interpreted according to criteria created by the authors, with scores varying from 1 to 4 based on elasticity of images obtained upon release of compression.

[Proposal for the systematization of the elastographic study of mammary lesions through ultrasound scan].

Objective: Proposal of systematization for the elastographic study in the ultrasound routine.

Methods: Evaluation was made of 308 patients forwarded to the breast intervention service in the CTC-Genesis from May 1, 2007 to March 1, 2008 to perform percutaneous breast biopsy. Prior to the percutaneous biopsy, an ultrasound study and an elastography were performed.