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MRI in detecting facial cosmetic injectable fillers

Overview of attention for article published in Head & Face Medicine, September 2016
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Title
MRI in detecting facial cosmetic injectable fillers
Published in
Head & Face Medicine, September 2016
DOI 10.1186/s13005-016-0124-y
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Sigal Tal, Hillel S. Maresky, Theodore Bryan, Ella Ziv, Dov Klein, Assaf Persitz, Lior Heller

Abstract

Despite being considered a non-invasive procedure, injections can cause adverse outcomes including infections, overfilling, asymmetry, foreign body granulomas, and reactions that lead to scarring. Complications may be associated with the procedure itself, the physician's technique, and/or the type of agent injected. In these instances, it is important to be able locate and identify the substance used. This study investigated the viability of using MRI to correctly identify injected substances, their symmetry of distribution, and related complications. Fourteen patients with suspected injectable filler complications were identified by our institution's plastic surgery service. All subjects were scanned with MRI, using highly specific face-oriented sequences at high resolution with small field of view and thin slices across the axial and coronal planes by T1 Dixon non-contrast, T2 Dixon, and T1 Dixon after gadolinium injection. Two independent and blinded radiologists evaluated the images and reported (1) the likely injected substance, (2) symmetry, and (3) complications. These radiological results were compared against clinical data provided by the plastic surgery service. Ten patients (83 %) presented objective injectable complications: 4 had abscess, 4 granulomata, and 2 had allergic reactions to the injected substance. The Fleiss Kappa for inter-rater agreement on substances was 0.80. Asymmetry was identified in six patients (50 %) with a Kappa between radiology evaluators of 1. MRI characteristics of these common fillers are summarized in table form. Given the growing awareness among referring physicians of the value of dedicated facial MRI, utilization of this imaging technique may lead to discovery of the injected substance's true identity, evaluation of symmetry and/or complications.

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Unknown 60 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Postgraduate 11 18%
Researcher 8 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 8%
Other 5 8%
Student > Master 4 7%
Other 9 15%
Unknown 18 30%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 27 45%
Materials Science 4 7%
Chemistry 2 3%
Physics and Astronomy 2 3%
Immunology and Microbiology 1 2%
Other 6 10%
Unknown 18 30%
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