IN VIVO TRANSPORTATION OF SILICONE GEL FOR USE IN BREAST RECONSTRUCTION AND AUGMENTATION

摘要

An evacuated breast implant shell is surgically implanted into the body. One end of a fill tube is attached to a valve on the shell, while the other end of the fill tube is attached to an output port of a pump. The pump includes a container that seals around a pre-filled silicone breast implant containing an amount of silicone gel to be transported to the shell in the body. A rubber diaphragm is located on a lower surface of a pressure chamber. An input port on the top portion of the pressure chamber connects to a source of compressed air. The rubber diaphragm is expanded by the compressed air flowing into the pressure chamber, which causes the diaphragm to press on the implant in the container and forces trie silicone gel in the implant to flow out of the implant and into the implant.