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Sheets of processed animal or human skin, or absorbable synthetic mesh, used by surgeons to cover or support a breast implant or expander. The FDA has warned that complication rates differ between products.
Matrices and meshes reach the US market under general surgical mesh codes rather than for breast reconstruction specifically: TEI Biosciences' SurgiMend was cleared as surgical mesh (K083898, 4 February 2009, code FTM) and Tepha's GalaFLEX absorbable mesh as surgical film (K140533, 21 May 2014, code OOD). On 31 March 2021 the FDA issued a safety communication, now archived on its breast implant page, titled "Acellular Dermal Matrix (ADM) Products Used in Implant-Based Breast Reconstruction Differ in Complication Rates". In implant reconstruction the matrix forms a sling at the lower edge of the implant or wraps it completely when the implant sits in front of the chest muscle.
A decellularised collagen scaffold or bioabsorbable polymer mesh is sutured to the chest wall and muscle to cover and position the implant while the patient's own tissue grows into it.
Query for this technology: (TITLE:"Acellular dermal matrices and meshes in implant reconstruction" OR ABSTRACT:"Acellular dermal matrices and meshes in implant reconstruction" OR TITLE:"Acellular dermal matrix" OR ABSTRACT:"Acellular dermal matrix" OR TITLE:"Biological mesh" OR ABSTRACT:"Biological mesh" OR TITLE:"SurgiMend" OR ABSTRACT:"SurgiMend") AND (cancer OR tumor OR tumour OR oncology OR carcinoma OR lymphoma OR leukemia OR leukaemia OR myeloma OR sarcoma OR melanoma OR glioma). Results are unfiltered search hits about Acellular dermal matrices and meshes in implant reconstruction, not a curated reading list.
Shares Breast implants for reconstruction (silicone gel, saline and shaped cohesive gel), Breast reconstruction: implant and autologous, immediate and delayed, and what women report afterwards, Breast reconstruction, Breast cancer (all types) and the tag devices-gaps-2026-11.
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Shares Breast implants for reconstruction (silicone gel, saline and shaped cohesive gel), Breast reconstruction, Breast cancer (all types) and the tag devices-gaps-2026-11.
Shares Breast implants for reconstruction (silicone gel, saline and shaped cohesive gel) and the tag devices-gaps-2026-11.
Shares Breast implants for reconstruction (silicone gel, saline and shaped cohesive gel) and the tag devices-gaps-2026-11.
Shares Breast cancer (all types) and the tag devices-gaps-2026-11.
Shares Breast cancer (all types) and the tag devices-gaps-2026-11.
Shares Breast cancer (all types) and the tag devices-gaps-2026-11.
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