Re: Pathology letter request

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Oh it is so sad to see these important links disappear! Sorry!

Patty

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> This is in our files section under the explant folder:

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> This portion pertinent is to our discussion re: Dr. Blais

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> 1. Please save my removed breast implants. I will pick them up within 30

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> days afterwards or give you further instructions in regard to them.

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> 2. Please weigh my implants and place this information in the pathology

> report. It is an important medical fact how much they weighed when

> explanted as most of us know having obtained the original Product I. D.

> Tag how much they weighed when implanted.

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> For the gross examination, I appreciate you recording the type of

> external surface, i. e., smooth, textured, polyurethane or smooth and

> covered by sticky material and contents of the implant, i. e., viscous

> gel, oil or watery fluid. ....

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> 6. Please note if you see what might be metal or dark floating particles

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> or objects in the silicone-gel (saline).

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> 7. For SALINE only: There were no drugs instilled in the saline solution

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> when my implants were placed or there was bedatine, cortisone;

> antibiotics -- see your operative report at implantation and Office

> Notes; help the pathologist -- give him the facts! If the saline

> solution looks like " swamp water, " since no drugs were instilled (if

> true), you might have cultures for a more lengthy time to identify what

> is growing in it. Microorganism growing in the saline solution now are

> documented to occur more frequently than previously thought. (Don't type

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> this in the letter; run off the articles, if you are having saline

> explanted, in

> article #21 at the SALINE IMPLANT LIBRARY and attach those to your

> letter:

> http://www.GeoCities.com/HotSprings/8689/saline.html

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> I was also looking for the article I saw recently which suggested that the

implants should be dipped in formaldehyde before sending off to the pathologist,

but the argument against this is that the formaldehyde would kill off any

organisms. However, even if it did, the dead organisms present would be the

telltale sign of what the body was fighting.

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> I didn't find the article by the way...if anyone else knows, post away.

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> Patty

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