Silicone leakage common with breast implant revision: audit

Dutch researchers have examined tissue excised from nearly 400 women having revision or removal surgery
Reuters Health
Wwoman looking at breast implants

Leakage of silicone from breast implants is apparent in almost all cases of surgical revisions or removal of implants, a single-centre study shows.

Furthermore, cohesive implants appeared to leak almost as much as non-cohesive ones, the Dutch data show.