PIP IMPLANTS

Photograph of a ruptured implant with siliconoma and sterile pus.

Mr Umar Khan has been actively writing on the problems arising from PIP (Poly Implant Prothese) implants and has written five articles including four papers in Peer Reviewed journals. Mr Khan is also presenting a talk on The Presentation and Management of Complications Arising from Ruptured PIP implants.

Most common presentation of ruptured PIP implants was swelling of the breast followed by breast and axillary lumps due to leaked silicone. In Mr Khan published article, it was found that these implants had a higher early rupture rate and these ruptures were almost always symptomatic.

Published articles.

1) Khan UD. Lt Unilateral Breast Autoinflation and Intraprosthetic

    Collection of Sterile Pus.  An   Unusual Operative Finding of   

    Silicone GelBleed With Silicone Lymphadenitis. Aesth Plast Surg

     2008; 32:684-687

2)    Khan UD. Breast Autoinflation with Sterile Pus as a Marker of 

        Implant Rupture: Single- Stage Treatment and Outcome for Five

        Consecutive Cases. Aesth Plast Surg 33: 58-65. 2009

3)  Khan UD.  Mondor’s Disease: A review of the literature and a case   

     report. Aesthetic Surg J; 29:209-212. 2009

4) Khan UD. PIP Implants Investigated. Cosmetic Surgery and Aesthetic

     Guide.12:128-9.2011 

5)  Khan UD. Implant Rupture and Ante-grade Excision of Axillary

State of Art Lecture on Body Contouring, Liposuction and Breast Augmentation

I had been to Hyderabad, Pakistan where I was invited to give State of The Art lectures for Liposuction, Body contouring and use of muscle splitting augmentation for new as well as complicated breast implant surgeries.

• It was Annual Convention of Pakistan Association of Plastic Surgeons.
• Hyderabad is the second Largest city of Sind Province and on gthe Bank of River Indus, One of the five rivers originating from Himalaya Range.

Muscle-Splitting Breast Augmentation: A New Pocket in a Different Plane

Breast augmentation is usually performed in subglandular, subfascial, or partial submuscular pockets, including the dual plane. A new pocket has been introduced by my new technique of muscle splitting breast augmentation. The initial pocket was made in the subglandular plane up to the lower level of the nipple–areolar complex, and the submuscular plane was reached by splitting the pectoralis major muscle without its release from the costal margin. The implant now lies in this plane simultaneously behind and in front of the pectoralis. The technique was first published in the Springer Journal for Aesthetic and Plastic Surgery three years ago, and since then it has been adopted by aesthetic plastic surgeons from around the world due the highly successful and aesthetically pleasing results we are able to achieve using this technique.

For more information about this pioneering technique and publication by Springer (pdf copy also available) have a look here. To see an animated video of this technique have a look here.