Closed compression technique for rupturing a contracted capsule around a breast implant.
When a breast becomes hard after an augmentation mammaplasty, the fibrous capsule around the implant can be ruptured, in most cases, by closed compression of the breast-resulting in immediate softness of the breast. As yet the duration of this improvement is unknown, but follow-up examinations to date indicate that it is persisting in about 3 or 4 patients so treated.
D001940:Breast / Q000601:surgery; D003286:Contracture / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D019736:Prostheses and Implants; D012421:Rupture; D013518:Surgery, Plastic / Q000009:adverse effects*