Breast enlargement caused a lump in woman's breast

[Dong Zhuo]

> Sin Chew Daily reported that a Singaporean woman discovered a lump in her breast recently after going through breast enlargement a year ago.

The Singapore Health Sciences Authority has ordered plastic surgeons to stop using Aqualift Dermal Filler for breast enlargements.


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[Red 2]

Woman gets lumps in breast


Dec 18, 2010

ST EXCLUSIVES: DEC 11 - 17
Woman gets lumps in breast

By Judith Tan

A women developed lumps in her breast after using a medical filler gel. -- ST PHOTO: ALAN LIM

DOCTORS have been warned to stop using a medical filler gel after a patient who was injected with it developed unusual lumps in her breasts.

The problem was discovered a year after the woman was treated with Aqualift Dermal Filler during a breast enhancement procedure.

The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) sent an e-mail to doctors on Dec 7 as a precautionary measure.

It told them to stop using existing stocks of the dermal filler immediately and monitor patients who had been treated with it.

It also told Celeste, the company that distributes the product here, to recall it from the market.

HSA was informed of the woman's case late last month. It called it 'a probable adverse event that could be linked to the use of Aqualift Dermal Filler'.

It said investigations to determine the cause are ongoing, and declined to name the patient or say where she was treated.