Breast Implant Removal Surgery: A Data-driven Look at Growing Trends

Samuel Knoedler^{1

2}, Michael Alfertshofer³, Daniel J Rams⁴, Dany Y Matar², Leonard Knoedler^{1

5}, Giuseppe Sofo⁶, Sören Könneker⁷, Bong-Sung Kim⁷, Dennis P Orgill², Adriana C Panayi^{2

5}, Thilo L Schenck³

Affiliations

¹ From the Department of Plastic, Hand and Reconstructive Surgery, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
² Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
³ Division of Hand, Plastic, and Aesthetic Surgery, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany.
⁴ Department of Anatomy, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland.
⁵ Department of Hand, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Microsurgery, Burn Trauma Center, Ludwigshafen, University of Heidelberg, Ludwigshafen, Germany.
⁶ Instituto Ivo Pitanguy, Hospital Santa Casa de Misericórdia Rio de Janeiro, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
⁷ Department of Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

Samuel Knoedler et al. Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open. 2024.

. 2024 Dec 20;12(12):e6402.

doi: 10.1097/GOX.0000000000006402. eCollection 2024 Dec.

¹ From the Department of Plastic, Hand and Reconstructive Surgery, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
² Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
³ Division of Hand, Plastic, and Aesthetic Surgery, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany.
⁴ Department of Anatomy, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland.
⁵ Department of Hand, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Microsurgery, Burn Trauma Center, Ludwigshafen, University of Heidelberg, Ludwigshafen, Germany.
⁶ Instituto Ivo Pitanguy, Hospital Santa Casa de Misericórdia Rio de Janeiro, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
⁷ Department of Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have no financial interest to declare in relation to the content of this article.

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