Abstract:Breast implants are prevalent in the United States. Patients with breast implants may be susceptible to iatrogenic implant rupture during cardiothoracic surgery. To our knowledge, however, this complication has never been described following robot-assisted thoracic surgery (RATS). We described a patient who developed a rupture of a saline breast implant after undergoing a robot-assisted left lower lobectomy. We hypothesized that a tear to the breast implant may have occurred either during the extraction of one… Show more
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