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Am breast feeding with silicon implant, i felt something wrong in my left breast and my ultrasound said 3ml leak from the implant and mri required why?

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MRI is the best test: Currently, a breast MRI with a dedicated breast coil in a 1.5 tesla MRI is the best test we have to look for gel leak. I would consider speaking with your plastic surgeon first. If the ultrasound shows a leak, you and your surgeon can consider just getting it removed and/or replaced without the mri.

Answered 12/25/2014

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Implant rupture: Mri is the gold standard to determine in the implant is intact or not. The presence of a small amount of fluid on ultrasound may be a clue that there is a leak. Mri will confirm before potentially having surgery.

Answered 3/13/2013

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