A woman who survived a close-range gunshot wound to the chest was saved because of her silicone breast implants, doctors believe.
In a case study published to the SAGE medical journal last week, doctors described how a silicone breast implant deflected a bullet away from a 30-year-old woman's vital organs. The incident, which took place in 2018 in Toronto, Canada, is one of only a handful of instances recorded in medical literature where a breast implant played a role in saving a patient's life, and the first recorded instance of a silicone implant doing so, surgeon Giancarlo McEvenue told CNN.
"She was talking -- the trauma team was in disbelief at how well she was," McEvenue, one of the treating surgeons, said. "The bullet wound entry was on the left breast, but the rib fracture was on the right side. The bullet entered the skin on the left side first, and then ricocheted across her sternum into the right breast and broke her rib on the right side," he explained. "The implant caused the change in the trajectory of the bullet," he said.
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