Do Breast Implants Interfere with Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping at the time of Breast Biopsy?
Breast augmentation procedures (peri-areolar or Trans-mammary) that involve cutting through breast tissue, similar to a breast biopsy in order to place breast implants, can potentially interfere with diagnostic procedures to determine lymph node drainage of breast tissue to stage breast cancer. This procedure is only performed on those who have a biopsy-proven breast cancer and need to have further determination of their cancer progress. If this is a concern, individuals considering Breast Augmentation by these approaches may elect to consider another surgical approach such as the Inframammary approach.
