Correspondence on: “Breast implant explantation and capsulectomy in symptomatic patients. Is there any improvement with the procedure? Systematic review and meta-analysis”
Luigi Annacontini, Vincenzo Verdura, Luigi Cagiano · 2026
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Luigi Annacontini, Vincenzo Verdura, and Luigi Cagiano write a letter in reply to a review on removing breast implants and the surrounding capsule in women with symptoms. They praise the review's care in splitting clear physical disease from clusters of reported body-wide symptoms. They also note, as the review did, that no study included a sick comparison group that kept its implants.
Because they share the review's broad conclusions, the writers press three points where the numbers could be read too strongly. Chief among them, the target of the pooled odds ratios is never defined. Without a comparison group, effect sizes rest on shaky ground. The letter asks for clearer limits before the results guide surgery decisions.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Luigi Annacontini, Vincenzo Verdura, Luigi Cagiano |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 6 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |