AUTHOR=de Faria Castro Fleury Eduardo 

TITLE=Breast silicone implants’ pericapsular impairment: current underdiagnosed status

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Surgery

VOLUME=Volume 10 - 2023

YEAR=2023

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/surgery/articles/10.3389/fsurg.2023.1249078

DOI=10.3389/fsurg.2023.1249078

ISSN=2296-875X

ABSTRACT=Since the end of the breast implants moratorium at the beginning of the 21st century, the number of surgeries using silicone implants has increased exponen�ally. Currently, groups of women gathered on social networks associa�ng their morbidi�es with the presence of breast silicone implants. One of the main complaints of pa�ents with clinical symptoms related to silicone implants is the difficulty in diagnosing the disease.The descriptors in the BI-RADS lexicon seem outdated for classifying the new genera�ons of implants with cohesive gel, which hinders the diagnosis of device complica�ons. In this review we show the most common impairment of the pericapsular space of the silicone implants, usually ignored in the MRI analysis.