Pathology letter request

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This is in our files section under the explant folder:

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

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

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

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.

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. ....

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

or objects in the silicone-gel (saline).

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

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

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

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.

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

Patty