Short surgical commentary by Dr. Robin Austin describing saline breast implants removed during an explant. He points out intact fill valves, differing fluid volumes and collapse, the difficulty of removing saline implants due to compressibility, and notes that a posterior-surface biopsy was sent to MicroGen DX for DNA analysis and remaining tissue to pathology in Austin.
Hey, it's Dr. Robin Austin. We just did an explant, so we're going to go ahead and show you these. These are saline devices, and sometimes I cut into them when I'm taking off the capsule, which is. And so you can see the fill valve of the saline right there. It's intact. There's nothing abnormal about these. These are a little bit challenging to take out from the plastic surgeon side because it's hard to press down a saline implant, so they don't like to compress. Usually I will go ahead and actually injure the implant down this because this capsule stuck down pretty well. Try not to. Here's the fill valve Again, These were both in the right position. Here's the fill valve. You can see it. Everything's really clear in these. They always should be. Everything should be filled with sterile saline. This one has more fluid in it than the other one. You can see this one's kind of collapsing down. I already took my biopsy off the posterior surface that I send to do DNA analysis through MicroGen DX and Lubbock, Texas. And we'll send the rest of this off to do pathology here in Austin. That's it.
