Breast Implants & Augmentation

Chapter 5 of Volume 4, Breast, Trunk, Lower Limb & Aesthetics. Revision notes and examiner-style viva questions with model answers for the FRCS (Plast).

21 viva questions in this chapter

1. How would you approach this consultation?
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2. What does the professional guidance actually say?
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3. Her mother is in favour and is answering for her. How do you handle that?
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4. What would you tell her about body dysmorphic disorder screening?
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5. Take me through consent for breast augmentation.
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6. What is your obligation once you have put an implant in?
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7. How do you plan a primary augmentation?
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8. Round or anatomical? Smooth or textured?
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9. Which pocket?
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10. Take me through the operation.
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11. She rings on day one with a swollen, painful breast.
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12. Show me you can read the positional complications.
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13. Capsular contracture — rates, cause, prevention, treatment.
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14. How do you counsel about rupture, and do you screen for it?
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15. A woman presents four years after augmentation with a unilateral swollen breast.
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16. A woman asks you to remove her implants because she believes they are making her ill.
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17. What do you tell her about breastfeeding, screening and sensation?
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18. Describe this photograph.
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19. How do you examine her?
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20. Tell me about the types of breast implant.
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21. Tell me about PIP.
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