Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Explant surgery! Breast Implant Removal with entire capsule. Large Deflated Saline Implants

3 Mar 2023 · 0 min

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A short surgical/explant YouTube video featuring Dr. Robert Whitfield demonstrating removal and inspection of large deflated saline breast implants and their capsules. The speakers identify implant fill volumes (spoken as 600cc, 800cc with fills to 960cc), note multilayered/thick capsules, and state that biopsies were taken and sent for PCR and pathology to rule out breast cancer, lymphoma, and squamous cell carcinoma.

Questions this video answers

600cc, 800cc; both filled to 960cc (spoken as devices filled to 960).

Saline implants (deflated).

PCR analysis of biopsies; pathology to check for breast cancer, lymphoma, and squamous cell carcinoma.

Hey, it's Dr. Whitfield. We have some deflated saline implants we took out today. So we're going to open these up. This is a 600cc device. It's still the 960, but it's a 600cc device.
And this one is much thicker in terms of capsule. There were two layers of capsule on this device. This is a much thicker capsule.
This has a much thicker layer. Multiple capsule layers. There's the deflated.
Saline.
It's at 800. I'm sorry. It makes. Maybe this is an 800 as well. Yeah, this is an 800. So they're both 800s. They filled to 960. So that's an extremely large device. It's thick capsule. We already did biopsy these, and we'll send these off for PCR analysis. And the rest will sent off to make sure there's no breast cancer, lymphoma, or squamous cell carcinoma.