Robert Whitfield MD describes a case where doctors suspected breast implant-linked lymphoma but couldn't confirm it with standard pathology stains. He decided on en bloc resection and found the lesion was firm enough to remove while keeping the implant capsule intact.
They want to talk to you. I'm like, okay. So, you know, I get on the phone and I'm like, yeah, I presume you think this is a lymphoma from a breast implant. And they're like, yeah, but we can't characterize it. It's not staining the correct way. And so I was like, well, that's great. So, you know, once again, doctors and all this. And I both know, like, when things are abnormal, they're abnormal and they're bothersome to us because we've seen enough over a number of years to know that they're abnormal. And of course, in that setting, I did an on block resection, but it was much easier because one, it was very firm. And he knows, like I do, when it's firm, it's a little bit easier for us to complete the resection in a way and move it around and just adjust it to. To get the best angles and take it off the. The surfaces without violating the capsule. And that's what I did in this.
