PIP Implants: What the Medical Experts say

PIP Implant Rupture: characteristically yellow

Senior British physicians give their opinions: 

“It is very sad our government is so reluctant to take the blame. We depend on the government for analysing and certifying many things that are sold and if we can’t depend on it for this it is a serious failing.  Even if it was an honest mistake, it was a mistake and should be put right. This is a health crisis and the government is pussyfooting around with select committees to justify a conclusion that it has already reached.’ To him, the issue is very simple. ‘If it’s industrial silicone, and you don’t know what the potential risks are, it has to come out.’”

Breast Specialist Professor Laurence Kirwan 20.04.2012 ES Magazine

Concerns from Surgeons in USA 

Medical Studies from Germany

Expert Rev Med Devices. 2013 Mar;10(2):167-70. doi: 10.1586/erd.12.87.

Complications of Poly Implant Prothèse breast implants: the current discussion.

Kolios L, Hirche C, Spiethoff A, Daigeler A, Lehnhardt M.

Department of Hand, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Burn Care Unit, University of Heidelberg, BG Trauma Center Ludwigshafen, Ludwig-Guttmann-Strasse 13, 67071 Ludwigshafen, Germany.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23480085

Against the background of the current discussion about Poly Implant Prothèse (PIP, Seyne-sur-mer, France) breast implants, we want to present a case demonstrating the complications such as implant rupture, silicone dissemination and level III silicone lymphadenopathy. A 29-year-old woman with cosmetic breast augmentation with PIP implants 5 years previously showed a sensitive swelling in her right axilla and neck region. All tests to detect an infectious or lymphomatous lymphadenopathy were negative. After ultrasound and MRI, rupture of the right implant was assumed and multiple pathologically enlarged lymph nodes up to supraclavicular region were shown. An excision biopsy of one axillary lymph node was performed; the histological examination detected a strong silicone lymphadenopathy. Surgical removal of both implants as well as capsulectomy was performed and 14 axillary lymph nodes up to level II were resected. Histologic evaluation confirmed the previous results. Our case underlines the actual discussion concerning increased rupture rate and massive silicone lymphadenopathy by PIP implants.