Dr. Robert Whitfield explains capsulectomy, the removal of scar tissue around breast implants. Thicker capsules are easier to extract intact. In several thousand procedures, he's found lymphoma and multiple breast cancers inside the removed capsules.
—And the, the debate about capsulectomy. So basically, when we describe capsulectomies, uh, we're, we're trying to take the capsular specimen out. It's very hard to take it out totally intact all the time. They can be thin, so if they're thicker, it's easier to take them out. But in essence, you're trying to remove the capsular material and really get rid of any bacterial contaminant that could be there. Also, in my experience of doing several thousand cases, I have actually found a lymphoma and a number of breast cancers.
