A rare case of siliconomas resulting from free silicone injections in breast tissue
Keywords:
Siliconomas, Breast, Mammography, ultrasound, MRI, CTAbstract
One of the most common complications of free silicone injection at multiple sites is its leakage and more rarely its migration through the lymphatic system with a resulting local inflammatory reaction of granulomatous type, known as “siliconoma”.
This report describes the case of a young woman who came to our attention for bilateral mastodynia and palpable tumefactions in breast and gluteal region, a few years after percutaneous injections of free liquid silicone for breast augmentation.
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