7,000 more women in the UK ’have faulty breast implants’ | Mail Online
►http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2115439/7-000-women-UK-faulty-breast-implants.html
The implants, manufactured by defunct French company Poly Implant Prothese, were filled with industrial-grade silicone gel intended for mattresses and can rupture, exposing the silicone to body tissue.
French authorities previously said only those implants used after 2001 may have included the unauthorised gel.
Plastic surgeon Denis Boucq holds defective PIP implants removed from a patient
But an investigation by the UK medical safety watchdog has discovered that contaminated implants may have been used in Britain since 1997.
Prothèses PIP : Retrait recommandé aux Pays-Bas
Prothèses mammaires défectueuses
Le scandale des prothèses mammaires PIP continuent à bousculer l’Europe. Aux Pays-Bas, les autorités sanitaires ont recommandé le retrait des implants posés en 2001. En Grande-Bretagne, 7.000 nouveaux cas ont été recensés.
►http://www.francesoir.fr/actualite/sante/protheses-pip-retrait-recommande-aux-pays-bas-197265.html
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