THE VOICE OF SILENCE: WHEN SCIENCE IS THE ENEMY. THE BREAST IMPLANT ILLNESS JOURNEY I would like to present my book on silicone implants....

We are pleased to participate in the EUROFOARMA initiative, which created the euro award to reward Brazilian health innovation...

Two years ago, I attended a conference in São Paulo, Brazil, regarding breast cancer oncoplastic surgery. One of the speakers, a breast...

Regarding breast implants, much attention is focused on texture and the relationship with complications. Most studies show that there is...

I would like to share my experience with some women suffering from BII. I have contacted many. I found it interesting to share the story...

“Female empowerment, digital transformation, leadership, democratization of knowledge and access to information, digital immediacy,...

Undoubtedly without inspiration in the manuscripts published by Prof. Jan Willem Cohen Tervaert our research would not have evolved. The...

Over the course of the study, we observed that SIGBIC was often associated with intracapsular collection in magnetic resonance imaging...

Before beginning our prospective study we spent a period looking at what were the common findings on MRI related to breast implants. We...

This 2018 article by Fleming et al reoijts 2 cases of spontaneous BIA-ALCL remission between diagnosis and surgical time. Interestingly,...

This may be the main article related to SIGBIC, where we illustrate how the diagnosis should be made and how to correlate the histology...

In 2014, Taylor et al reported the color change of breast implants after explantation. Described how it changed in color from clear to...

In a 2016 study analyzing the autopsy of 2 women who had breast implants, Kappel et al concluded that silicone particles were present in...

The SIGBIC blog story. Silicone Induced Granuloma of Breast Implant Capsule The purpose of creating this blog was due to the increasingly...

The first case of SIGBIC described in our service was in 2017. It motivated the first publication on the subject. Previously, we had...

Recently, some organized women with breast implants had the initiative to create groups through social media to report symptoms related...