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THIS COMPLAINT IS FROM A LITERATURE SOURCE. IT WAS REPORTED THAT A (B)(6) YEAR-OLD WOMAN WITH MASTECTOMY AND AXILLARY DISSECTION (2004) FOR LYMPH NODE-FREE LOBULAR CARCINOMA OF HER RIGHT BREAST WAS IN COMPLETE REMISSION FOR 11 YEARS. SHE UNDERWENT RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY WITH BILATERAL ALLERGAN IMPLANTS IN 2005, REPLACED BY MENTOR IMPLANTS IN 2008. A MODERATELY-LARGE LEFT PERI-PROSTHETIC EFFUSION SEEN BY MRI IN 2012 CONTAINED NON-ATYPICAL LYMPHOCYTES AND MACROPHAGES IN A PROTEINACEOUS BACKGROUND, AND WAS CYTOLOGICALLY INTERPRETED AS A SEROMA. SHE HAD TWO OTHER SEROMAS OF HER RIGHT BREAST (2013) THAT SPONTANEOUSLY REGRESSED WITHOUT EVACUATION. ON (B)(6) 2015, SHE COMPLAINED OF PAIN AND SWELLING OF HER RIGHT BREAST. A LARGE PERI-IMPLANT EFFUSION SUSPICIOUS OF AN INFLAMMATORY PROCESS BY ULTRASOUND WAS COMPLETELY DRAINED BY FNA, RECOVERING 85 CC OF CLOUDY YELLOW FLUID. BILATERAL IMPLANTS WERE REMOVED. SHE IS CURRENTLY UNDERGOING A WAIT-AND-SEE STRATEGY AND IS ALIVE WITHOUT DISEASE 8 MONTHS AFTER HER LYMPHOMA DIAGNOSIS. TITLE: "THE CASE AGAINST BIOFILM AS THE PRIMARY INITIATOR OF BREAST IMPLANT-ASSOCIATED ANAPLASTIC LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA." THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO PRESENT THE FIRST PUBLISHED REPORT OF A BILATERAL ALK-NEGATIVE ANAPLASTIC LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA DIAGNOSED BY CYTOLOGY. SUSPECT DEVICE IS MENTOR IMPLANT, HOWEVER CATALOG AND LOT NUMBER ARE UNKNOWN." CONTACT: (B)(6), AGE (STUDY AVERAGE) (B)(6), DOS UNK, SURGEON UNK, DEVICE INFO UNK.