 Introduction/Background Breast implants are routinely placed for augmentation and reconstruction and have been available for more than 50 years. A large variety of implants are commercially available, including saline, silicone (including form-stable varieties also known as gummy bear implants), double lumen varieties using both saline and silicone, and polyacrylamide gel. Saline-filled breast implants are inflated to the desired size with sterile isotonic saline, and silicone gel-filled breast implants contain a fixed volume of silicone gel, although silicone gel viscosity differs among implants and manufacturers [1]. aPenn State Health Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania. bPanel Chair, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida. cPanel Vice-Chair, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio. dVirtua Willingboro Hospital, Willingboro, New Jersey; American College of Surgeons. eBoston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, Primary care physician. fUniversity of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut; American Society of Plastic Surgeons. gMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York. hUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. iSt. Bernards Healthcare, Jonesboro, Arkansas. jUMass Memorial Medical Center/UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts. kHarvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; American Geriatrics Society. lCentral Oregon Radiology Associates, Bend, Oregon. mHoag Family Cancer Institute, Newport Beach, California and University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; Commission on Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. nSpecialty Chair, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts. Reprint requests to: publications@acr.org Breast Implant Evaluation
Breast Implant Evaluation.  Introduction/Background Breast implants are routinely placed for augmentation and reconstruction and have been available for more than 50 years. A large variety of implants are commercially available, including saline, silicone (including form-stable varieties also known as gummy bear implants), double lumen varieties using both saline and silicone, and polyacrylamide gel. Saline-filled breast implants are inflated to the desired size with sterile isotonic saline, and silicone gel-filled breast implants contain a fixed volume of silicone gel, although silicone gel viscosity differs among implants and manufacturers [1]. aPenn State Health Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania. bPanel Chair, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida. cPanel Vice-Chair, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio. dVirtua Willingboro Hospital, Willingboro, New Jersey; American College of Surgeons. eBoston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, Primary care physician. fUniversity of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut; American Society of Plastic Surgeons. gMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York. hUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. iSt. Bernards Healthcare, Jonesboro, Arkansas. jUMass Memorial Medical Center/UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts. kHarvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; American Geriatrics Society. lCentral Oregon Radiology Associates, Bend, Oregon. mHoag Family Cancer Institute, Newport Beach, California and University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; Commission on Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. nSpecialty Chair, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts. Reprint requests to: publications@acr.org Breast Implant Evaluation