Breast Implants
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From: | "Weems, Joyce" <JWEEMS@sjha.org> |
To: | "'Histonet'" <histonet@Pathology.swmed.edu> |
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Date: | Mon, 14 Jun 1999 17:36:41 -0400 |
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Two questions:
1. Do you release breast implants to patients in an alcohol or
formalin substitute? We wash them in a bleach solution and release
them in the dry state. However, if the specimen has been around for
awhile (as is the case with a current request) mold is growing all
over it. Our pathologist wonders if there is a standard in the
industry for this procedure.
2. The owner of the above implants has contacted our pathologist
requesting that her breast capsule (which has adhered to the shell of
the implants) be dissected from the shell under videotaped
surveillance. "A lab told her this," she says. Has anyone heard of
such a procedure?
Thanks in advance, j:>)
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