The patient should inform the examiners about the presence, type, and placement of implants and request a diagnostic mammography, rather than a screening mammography. Breast implants may complicate the interpretation of mammographic images by obscuring underlying breast tissue and/ or by compressing overlying tissue. Accredited mammography centers, technicians with experience in examining patients with breast implants, and the use of displacement techniques are needed to visualize breast tissue in the implanted breast adequately. The current recommendations for preoperative/screening mammograms are no different for women with breast implants than for those women without implants. Pre and post-surgical mammography may be performed to determine a baseline for routine future studies in augmentation patients.
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