Journal Time: Can you save an infected implant?

Posted on June 14, 2013

Journal time: June 2013 Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Journal had an article on “Infection Following Implant based Reconstruction in 1952 Consecutive Breast Reconstructions: Salvage Rates and Predictors of Success.”

Long title, but what it is talking about is:

IF your breast cancer reconstruction implant presents with an infection (redness, discharge, etc), can you save the implant? And is there a way to predict when you should try?

Study: Out of Boston.  Retrospective study of consecutive reconstructions 2004-2010.  There were 1952 reconstructions.

Findings?

Conclusions?


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