Fw: First Pennsylvania breast implant doctor case went to trial July 16, 2001

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From: " ilena rose " <ilena@...>

Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 10:46 AM

Subject: First Pennsylvania breast implant doctor case went to trial July

16, 2001

> ~~~ Thank you for this info Kathy ... what a miscarriage of justice.

Ilena ~~~

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> Kathynye@... wrote:

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> Hi Ilena, Please share with group.

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> The first Pennsylvania breast implant doctor case went to trial the week

of

> July 16, 2001. Unfortunately, the verdict handed down by the jury was for

> the doctor. The case involved a women who underwent breast reconstructive

> surgery which included the use of silicone implants in 1986. Following

> the procedure, she sustained a rupture of the implant, chest wall

skeletal

> changes, loss of or changes in sensation of her breast or nipple, gel

> migration, and formation of a hardened bundle of tissue which formed

> around the implants. She had her implants removed in 1992. Judge Wettick

> issued an opinion in December 2000 that evidence that silicone implants

> cause systemic disease could not be admitted in the trial.

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