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Case Rep Surg
March 2013
Department of Plastic Surgery, Aalborg University Hospital, Soendre Skovvej 3, 9000 Aalborg, Denmark.
A 39-year-old woman was referred for removal of cosmetic breast implants and related siliconoma. After an exchange of breast implants at a private clinic a year previously, she had asymmetry of the right breast, persistent pain, and a generally unacceptable cosmetic result. An MRI had shown a well-defined area with spots of silicone-like material at the upper pole of the right breast.
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February 2012
Department of Radiology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan.
Aesthetic Plast Surg
July 2008
Department of Plastic Surgery, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, University of Buenos Aires, School of Medicine, Gascon 450, Buenos Aires, 1181, Argentina.
Gauzoma is a rare iatrogenic mass caused by the retention of gauze fibers during surgery. This intraoperative complication represents a diagnostic problem for radiologists besides being a medicolegal problem for surgeons. We present a patient in whom a retained surgical sponge after breast augmentation surgery mimicked a siliconoma and discuss imaging appearance and differential diagnosis.
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