J Breast Dis.  2022 Dec;10(2):77-81. 10.14449/jbd.2022.10.2.77.

Augmentation Mammoplasty Using Polyacrylamide Hydrogel Injection Can Mimic Breast Cancer After 20 Years: A Case Report

• Choi SB
• Kim J
• Kim D
• Park J
• Lee Y
• Park K
• Kim ES
• Lee SM
• Kim SW

• KMID: 2537436
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.14449/jbd.2022.10.2.77

Abstract

Polyacrylamide hydrogel (PAAG), an injectable, jelly-like, medical hydrogel, has been popular in some countries as a non-surgical method of mammoplasty since approximately 2000. Particularly in China, many patients underwent mammoplasty using PAAG during a 16-year period until 2006, and studies on its course and complications were also conducted. However, evidence regarding the relationship between PAAG mammoplasty and malignancy is lacking, and only a few cases have reported the possibility of this association. Herein, we present a case in which malignancy was suspected because of complications 20 years after PAAG injection mammoplasty.

Keyword

Breast; Mammoplasty; Foreign bodies; Polyacrylamide gel