Migration of silicone gel to axillary lymph nodes after prosthetic mammoplasty.
Foreign-body reaction to material optically resembling silicone gel was evident in an axillary lymph node of a patient eight years after subcutaneous mastectomy for fibrocystic disease and breast reconstruction with a silicone gel-filled prosthesis. The lymph nodes. was removed as a component of a radical mastectomy for adenocarcinoma and Paget's disease of the nipple that had developed in the residual breast tissue and preserved nipple. Silicone gel may "bleed" through a structurally intact prosthetic envelope and subsequently migrate to regional lymph nodes
D001365:Axilla; D001940:Breast / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000150:complications*; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000150:complications*; D005549:Foreign-Body Reaction; D006801:Humans; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000032:analysis*; D019736:Prostheses and Implants / Q000009:adverse effects; D012828:Silicones / Q000032:analysis*
D012828:Silicones