A Breast Foreign Body Migrating to the Back

1 Osamu Ito, MD, PhD Tomoyuki Yano, MD, PhD Department of Plastic Surgery Yokohama City Minato Red Cross Hospital Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan Minako Ito, MD, PhD Medical Check Center Yokohama City Minato Red Cross Hospital Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan Takayuki Shirai, MD Hiroki Miyashita, MD Noriko Uemura, MD Department of Plastic Surgery Tokyo Medical and Dental University Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan Takeshi Kawazoe, MD, PhD Department of Plastic Surgery Kyoto University Kyoto, Japan Sir: A 72-year-old woman presented to our hospital with bilateral back nodules. She had received breast augmentation with silicone injections over 40 years ago; however, the silicon had moved in recent months and spread outside the breasts, resulting in breast deformations. She underwent silicone removal with partial resection of the pectoralis major muscle 6 months after the breast augmentation.