breast implant
Sign in to saveAlso known as Internal Breast Prosthesis, synthetic breast, artificial breast, breast implants, fake tits, fake breasts
prosthesis used to change the size, shape, and contour of a person's breast
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Within Vinony's link graph, breast implant is referenced by 325 other articles, and connects out to complication, female breast and magnetic resonance imaging.
It sits within the topics Breast surgery, Implants (medicine) and Medical controversies.
Its subject is documented across 30 Wikipedia language editions.
Research
18,692 papers- Breast implant illness: scientific evidence of its existence.Expert review of clinical immunology · 2022
- Breast Implant Illness: A Way Forward.Plastic and reconstructive surgery · 2019
- Breast Implant-Associated Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma: Where Hematology and Plastic Surgery Meet.Clinical lymphoma, myeloma & leukemia · 2024
- Breast implant infections.Infectious disease clinics of North America · 2012
- Breast Implant-Associated Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma: Updates in Diagnosis and Specimen Handling.Surgical pathology clinics · 2023
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- mammaplasty
- Image
- Breast implants in hand 01.jpg
- Has use
- breast reconstruction
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- Commons category
- Breast implants
- different from
- breast prostheses
- anatomical location
- female breast
- facet of
- women's health
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Encyclopedic overview
A breast implant is a prosthesis used to change the size, shape, and contour of a person's breast. In reconstructive plastic surgery, breast implants can be placed to restore a natural-looking breast following a mastectomy, to correct congenital defects and deformities of the chest wall or, cosmetically, to enlarge the appearance of the breast through breast augmentation surgery.
Complications of implants may include breast pain, rashes, skin changes, infection, rupture, cosmetic changes to the breasts such as asymmetry and hardness, and a fluid collection around the breast.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “breast implant” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.