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The aim of our study was to evaluate the diagnostic value of ultrasound (US) in the evaluation of the integrity of silicone breast implants and identify the main sign of intact and ruptured breast implants. Patients and Methods: In this retrospective study, the medical documentation of women who underwent breast implant surgery and US checkups at Tautrimas A\u0161trauskas Clinic in Kaunas, Lithuania, during 2015\u20132020 was analyzed. The patients were divided into two groups: patients with intact and ruptured breast implants. The accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), and negative predictive value (NPV) as well as the signs of implant integrity of US examination were evaluated. Results: In this study, 76 women with bilateral breast implants (n = 152) were reviewed. On a US examination, ruptured implants were found in 41.1% (n = 61) of the cases; of them, 78.7% (n = 48) of the cases had \u22652 US signs of a ruptured implant, and in all these cases, implant rupture was confirmed at surgery. Overall, one US sign of a ruptured implant was found in 21.3% (n = 13) of the cases. Of them, inhomogeneous content in all cases (n = 3) was found in the intact implant group, and an abnormal implant shell was documented more often in the ruptured implant group, not intact one (n = 9, 90% vs. n = 1, 10%). US had a diagnostic accuracy of 94.7%, sensitivity of 98.3%, specificity of 89.2%, PPV of 93.4%, and NPV of 97.1% in the evaluation of implant integrity. Conclusions: Our results show that US is a very reliable alternative in evaluating breast implant integrity and could be the investigation of choice for implant rupture, while MRI could be advocated only in inconclusive cases. Uneven implant shell was found to be the most important US sign of breast implant rupture. Based on the findings, we recommend performing US examination after breast augmentation surgery with silicone gel-filled implants annually.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/medicina57050440","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,5,5]],"date-time":"2021-05-05T22:51:42Z","timestamp":1620255102000},"page":"440","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":19,"title":["The Value of Ultrasound in the Evaluation of the Integrity of Silicone Breast Implants"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"57","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1235-2815","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Dalia","family":"Rukanskien\u0117","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Clinic of Radiology, Hospital of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, LT-50161 Kaunas, Lithuania"},{"name":"Tautrimas A\u0161trauskas Clinic, LT-45325 Kaunas, Lithuania"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Greta","family":"Bytautait\u0117","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Medicine, Medical Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, LT-44307 Kaunas, Lithuania"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Agn\u0117","family":"\u010cesnauskait\u0117","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Medicine, Medical Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, LT-44307 Kaunas, Lithuania"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Loreta","family":"Pilipaityt\u0117","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Tautrimas A\u0161trauskas Clinic, LT-45325 Kaunas, Lithuania"},{"name":"Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Medical Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, LT-44307 Kaunas, Lithuania"},{"name":"Clinic of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Hospital of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, LT-50161 Kaunas, Lithuania"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Tautrimas","family":"A\u0161trauskas","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Tautrimas A\u0161trauskas Clinic, LT-45325 Kaunas, Lithuania"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Egl\u0117","family":"Jonaitien\u0117","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Clinic of Radiology, Hospital of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, LT-50161 Kaunas, Lithuania"},{"name":"Department of Radiology, Medical Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, LT-44307 Kaunas, Lithuania"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,5,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"(2020, December 15). 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