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We have reviewed this normal and, uh, abnormal appearance of, uh,

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breast implant, um, mammogram, ultrasound, and m mri.

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Now let's look at some uh, cases.

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Case number 1 48 year old

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presented with, uh, breast pain.

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She was beaten up by her husband and she's concerned about, uh,

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breast implant rupture. And, uh,

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I'm just showing you her mammogram five years ago.

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She has a nail breast mammogram.

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So was there appropriate initial imaging evaluation for participation?

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All right, um, let's look at it together.

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The correct answer is, uh, actually a mammogram.

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Um, because, um, we say that the patient has, based on the evening,

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you know that the patient has a saline implant, right?

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Mammogram is very good to detect the, uh, ceiling implant,

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uh, rupture.

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So mammogram are or obtained, and, uh,

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what's the appropriate next step?

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Okay, we are everywhere. And, um, let's, uh,

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take a look over here. The correct answer I think is, uh,

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is, uh,

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ultrasound at this point because the patient's supposed to have a mammogram.

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He had a mammogram before, but one,

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we cannot see this mammogram over here since the patient is already over here.

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In this case, we can just do ultrasound.

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So ultrasound was performed. What is the most appropriate management?

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Okay, this one I think we can just, uh, go with, uh,

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clinical management because, uh, we know that this is the implant, uh,

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rupture. Over here.

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There is a disruption of the kind laminal line and, uh,

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this is the, uh, step later sign over here. We identified this, uh,

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seline implant over here, residual one. And, uh,

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so I think the best way to manage that, uh,

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will be for the patient to go back to plastic surgeon.

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If a patient continue to have a pain, they may have to remove that.

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I know in some cases the patient just has no, you know, uh, no pain,

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no other symptoms, and they don't mind this, uh, um,

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deformity and there asymetry in those breasts.

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So I think, uh, it's better for the, uh,

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patient to discuss this with, uh, her, uh, plastic surgeon.

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Okay. What is the most common clinical

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Presentation of the implant? Uh, rupture.

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I think, uh, almost all of them get it right.

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The most common clinical presentation is, uh, corn deformity.

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And, um, if a patient has a silly implant,

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normally they have a very dramatic presentation.

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They can notice this kinda like deformity in asymmetry

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in those breasts. And, um,

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if a patient has a cell cell implant rupture is often, uh,

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quite a startle. But anyway, con, uh,

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based on a study or performed by, uh, uh,

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tar over here and, uh,

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0.2 deformity is the most common clinical presentation.

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And of course,

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the patient can operate to feel mass or pain or also symptoms.

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So, uh, this slide we are going to talk about, uh,

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a c r recommendation for evaluation of, uh,

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breast seline implant integrity. And it depends on the,

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um, patient's age implant type and the symptoms.

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If a patient has no symptoms, there is no, uh,

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imaging screening recommended by the acr. However,

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if a patient has presented with the symptoms and, uh,

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we need to recommend, uh, different, uh, initial evaluation,

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imaging evaluation based on patient's age, but, um,

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no MRI for those patient. For example, if the patient is, uh,

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less than 30 year old and we recommend ultrasound as a starting point

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for patient older than a 40 year old,

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mammogram should be performed like in this case,

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if we had before right that the patient has a seline implant rupture via

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start with a mammogram, she,

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cause she's more than 40 year old for the patient between the 30 and 40 year

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old, you can either start with a mammogram and ultrasound.

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So no m r I needed for D Selenium implant evaluation,

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just case number one. Let's look at case number two.

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A 59 year old woman filled a painful mass in the right breast

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and a mammogram is performed over here.

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She says she has a history of breast in, uh,

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breast implant augmentation at age of 24. So what's the best, uh,

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imaging evaluation for this condition?

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Actually in this case, we don't need to do the, uh,

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ultrasound because if you already know that is actual capsular rupture,

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we need to, uh,

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use the MRI without contrast because we know that the implant is quite old.

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Patient already told you that you also found the calcification around the

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capsule. You also worry about, uh, next, uh, the, uh, contralateral breast.

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So for this one, I would recommend MRI without IV contrast.

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And, uh, how about the silicone implant evaluation?

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Was the MRI recommendation for the asy medical patient.

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Again, aci, uh,

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ACR recommend no imaging for symptomatic patient.

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ACR recommend mri.

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They think that it is appropriate for symptomatic patient of all age,

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but alternatively, you can maybe think use the, uh,

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ultrasound or mammogram depends on patient's age.

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And, uh, I would like to point out that, uh,

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f d a have different recommendation from, uh, um,

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a C R and that f FDA's keeping updating the,

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uh, recommendation in 2019.

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F D A recommended MRI screening should begin

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between the five to six years of postsurgery and

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they should be done every two to three years. Uh, afterwards

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for, uh, for asymptomatic patient,

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if MRIs not is not available,

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ultrasound can be an acceptable alternative.

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That's a 2019 what they recommend. And then two, uh, 20,

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20 last year. They also, uh,

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add a recommendation for patient with, uh, symptoms.

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They recommend MRI at any time.

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Postly for PA for symptomatic patient or patient with, uh,

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equivocal ultrasound. Okay,

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case number three, c p or the woman with screening.

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Mammogram was their most or appropriate recommendation.

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This one is, uh, pretty subtle.

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The correct answer is, uh,

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m r i without a contrast why we recommend that because on the mammogram

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you can tell that this, uh, patient has some undulation of this,

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uh, um, silicone implant on the right side. Also,

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it has no symptoms and you can tell there's a calcification around this, uh,

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uh, implant. So it's quite old. There's underweight the undulation. So,

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so they will worry about, uh, intracapsular rupture. So we recommend the,

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um, uh, MRI without a contrast. And, uh,

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what's your diagnosis based on this? Uh, mri?

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Yes, you guys, uh, definitely right, those are the intracapsular rupture.

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Alright,

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case number 4, 38 year old woman with bilateral breast

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pain and deformity.

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She had a cone implant four months ago and the MRI is performed and

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was the most likely diagnosis.

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I just would like to point out that you may think this is a capsule, uh, sub,

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sub capsule line, but it's not. It's video for like, uh,

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I showed you before on the sagittal, so don't be confused.

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The diagnosis is not here.

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Let's look at the answer together. The correct answer is, uh, implant,

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capsule or contraction. And, uh,

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you can see that there is a significant deformity in the breast over here.

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Patient can notice that. And also patient just had the, uh,

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has both breast, uh, pain, uh,

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Faculty

Xiaoqin Jennifer Wang, MD

Assistant Professor

University of Kentucky

Tags

Ultrasound

Mammography

MRI

Breast