Women with silicone breast implants may not need regular follow-up with MRI, despite the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommendation that women with these implants undergo the scans in the years after surgery to screen for implant rupture, according to a study published in the March issue ofPlastic and Reconstructive Surgery.Dr. Jae Song and colleagues at the University of Michigan reviewed 21 studies evaluating MRI and/or ultrasound to detect rupture of silicone breast implants.
They found that MRI was 14 times more likely to detect problems in
