Prevalence of local postoperative complications and breast implant illness in women with breast implants

AS Lieffering, JE Hommes, L Ramerman… - JAMA Network …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance It is unknown how often breast implant illness (BII) is the indication for revision in
women with silicone breast implants. Objective To examine how often women with silicone
breast implants have their implants explanted or replaced because of BII compared with
local postoperative complications. Design, Setting, and Participants A legacy cohort study on
breast implant revision surgery was conducted between April 1, 2015, and December 31,
2020, and a prospective cohort study on breast implantation and revision surgery was …