BACKGROUND A single-center study assessing the efficacy of Nagor's Silgel STC-SE silicone gel to reduce the appearance of hypertrophic and keloid scars. METHODS A 16-week controlled study of 36 patients with hypertrophic or keloid scars. The subjects were divided between 2 cohorts: one assessing recently healed scars (<6 mo) and other assessing older scars (6 mo to 2 y). The efficacy of Silge...

Tuen Mun Social Hygiene Clinic, 5/F Tuen Mun Eye Centre, 4 Tuen Lee Street, Tuen Mun, N.T., Hong Kong Treatment of keloids is difficult and the response to first line treatment including silicone gel sheet, compression, topical and intralesional steroid are variable. Intralesional cryosurgery (ILC) may be useful for treating some earlobe keloids not responsive to these first line treatments. IL...

OBJECTIVE Silicone gel breast implants have been reported to rupture, but the prevalence of implant rupture in an unreferred population of women is not known. The objective of this study was to assess the prevalence of implant rupture and the presence of extracapsular silicone gel in an unreferred population of women without regard to the absence or presence of any local or systemic symptoms. ...

When doing high field (1.5T) magnetic resonance breast imaging, the use of a compression plate during imaging after a contrast-agent injection may critically change the enhancement characteristics of the tumor, making the tracking of its boundaries very difficult. A new method for clinical breast biopsy is presented, based on a deformable finite element model of the breast. The geometry of the ...

BACKGROUND MemoryShape (Contour Profile Gel) is a textured contoured implant filled with a cohesive silicone gel intended for use in aesthetic and reconstructive breast surgery. The 6-year summary of the clinical outcomes and satisfaction rates for this device from a 10-year, prospective, open-label, multicenter clinical trial is presented. METHODS According to 2006 guidelines set forth by th...

BACKGROUND Capsular contracture is a common complication associated with the use of breast implants. Numerous randomized controlled trials addressing the efficacy of textured surface breast implants in reducing capsular contracture have yielded nonuniform results. This meta-analysis addresses the use of textured breast implants in the prevention of capsular contracture. METHODS MEDLINE, EMBAS...

Cutaneous piloleiomyoma, angioleiomyoma and genital leiomyoma are variants of superficial cutaneous leiomyoma. The main purpose of this paper was to present clinical, histopathological and immunohistochemical diagnosis criteria for an unusual case of pilar leiomyoma in an 18-year-old male patient. The initial clinical aspect was very similar to spontaneous eruptive keloids: red-violet color, pa...

Introduction. We report a case of spontaneous rupture of a single testicular prosthesis in a patient who had undergone bilateral orchiectomy and silicone gel-filled prosthesis insertion. The consequences of this rare event are discussed. There is no management algorithm. Case Presentation. A 55-year-old man presented to our outpatient department with altered consistency in his right testicular ...

With the 2006 Food and Drug Administration approval of round silicone gel breast implants in the United States, there still remained a lack of versatility in implant options. The approval of Sientra's shaped cohesive implants in 2012 brought with it the innovations needed to address varying patient needs. Because access to shaped devices is still fairly recent in the United States, some surgeon...

BACKGROUND Polyurethane foam-covered silicone gel-filled breast implants, introduced in the 1970s, were used in more than 110,000 American women. Because of concerns about possible toxicity, they were withdrawn from the US market in 1991. These implants remain popular in many parts of the world. OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to evaluate long-term experience with polyurethane foam-cover...