Body Absorbs Breast Implant During Pilates Session

Friday, December 16th, 2011 at 7:43 pm

A breast cancer survivor’s breast implant was swallowed up by her own body during a Pilates session, resulting in surgical intervention to retrieve it and place it back into the breast, according to an article by doctors at Johns Hopkins’ University and published in NEJM (New England Journal of Medicine). The 59-year-old female had undergone a double mastectomy, followed by breast implants. The …