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BREAST SCREENING AFTER BREAST ENLARGEMENT SURGERY USING IMPLANTS
Accurate mammograms can still be performed after breast enlargement even though implants are opaque to x rays. Under normal circumstances breast screening is performed with one separate x ray on each breast. In order to compensate for the presence of a breast implant a special manoeuvre (Eklund) has been developed to allow the breast tissue to be x-rayed around the implant by assessing it in two directions instead of only one. This allows accurate mammography without loss of accuracy compared to women without implants.
However you must inform the radiographer that you have implants in order that they can do this for you at the time of having a mammogram.