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So that's the mammogram. How about the ultrasound? Ultrasound, uh,

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can be used, uh, to evaluate, uh,

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implant rupture also when compared to the mri,

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because it is faster and cheaper and easier. And, uh, because,

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uh, when patient have, um, uh, implant rupture,

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they often present with mass or pain. And in that case, you can start with,

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uh, ultrasound.

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The sensitivity of ultrasound is better than the mammogram,

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but not as good as the mri.

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The negative predictive value is, has a bigger range,

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is from a 50 to 19% question.

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Was this sign on ultrasound normal or abnormal

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answer over here? Okay, we have a little bit of step,

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we maybe kind confused with a step off and the step later sign.

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All right, let's review the results.

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So the correct answer is a, this is a step oversight.

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This is a normal silicone implant, uh, ultrasound on the edge of that.

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Alright, so that is, yeah, again,

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this is a silicone implant at the edge of the implant.

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You can see this step oversight because the, uh,

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sound covered much slower in the silicone gel

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than in the normal breast tissue. That's the why it's generator.

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This kind of like stable sign. It'll appeal that the silicone, you know,

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located further away from the probe because it travel slower and they get,

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take more time to get back to the, uh, probe. And that, um,

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the ultrasound, the open is a speechless. It could be an coic.

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And that they also have this kinda like a tri laminal sign.

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This is the in, this is the in envelope, the shell over the implant.

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And here is the, um, uh, fibro, uh,

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tissue developed around the, um, uh, the,

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she that's the, uh, space between that. You can find this on both the, uh,

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uh, silicone implant and also the ceiling implant, ceiling implant,

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just like a cyst, right? It's a back of, uh, water.

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So it is open and coic, they don't have this peripheral staple of sign

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question. What's the most reliable ultrasound sign of intracapsular rupture?

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The answer, correct answer is a staple. I sign. I saw half of you guys choose.

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Select the ingredient sign.

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Remember that ingredient sign is a r i sign is not, uh, ultrasound sign.

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Okay, let's, uh, at the early,

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the early signs of intracapsular rupture are ultrasound is described,

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are described as a keyhole and new sign and subcapsular

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Line sign loss of this normal tri laminal line over there.

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And later on, as it's advanced, it'll develop this step.

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Vital sign like that is very disorganized shelf over there.

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This tri laminal line is disrupted over here. Remember that.

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Um, patient also can,

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can also have just a retro fibrillation artifact. This, uh,

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normal saline also have just kind of like a parallel line over

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here, just another staple ladder sign. This is just the artifact over here.

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You can tell that, you know, just lines are parallel to this shelf over there.

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What's the, uh,

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reliable sign of actual capsular rupture of the silicone implant or ultrasound?

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Now if you're asking question, uh, silicone implant.

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All right, so all with you guys, get it right? This is great. It,

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it's a snowstorm. Um, silicone,

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once the silicone jails get out the, uh, um, envelope,

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they have various appearance on the, uh, ultrasound.

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It could be a high per ACO intermediate or an ACO over there

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like this one. You have just a snowstorm sign over here.

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And then over here is get kind of like,

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and this the one is a silicone granuloma over here is giving you

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heterogeneous, uh, um, architecture over here.

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Faculty

Xiaoqin Jennifer Wang, MD

Assistant Professor

University of Kentucky

Tags

Ultrasound

Breast