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Mammography After Breast Augmentation

Women with breast implants require regular breast cancer screening. Implants may interfere with mammography and can prevent the imaging of some breast tissue. As a result, four more x-ray films, called implant displacement views, must be taken. In these views, the implant is pushed toward the chest wall. The type of implants that cause the least interference with mammography are those placed behind the chest muscle. Mammograms do not cause implants to rupture and they usually cannot detect a rupture. MRI may be used to detect ruptures in breast implants.⁽¹⁾

References for this page:

1. "Mammography and Other Breast Imaging Procedures." American Cancer Society (6-19-2002). [http://www.cancer.org/Healthy/FindCancerEarly/ExamandTestDescriptions/MammogramsandOtherBreastImagingProcedures/mammograms-and-other-breast-imaging-procedures]