“Vanishing” breast implant – when a breast prosthesis is moving into the pleural cavity

The female patient was thought to have a so-called destroyed lung syndrome, but malignancy remains within the scope, however. Consequently, she has been operated on, applying an atypical partial wedge resection by means of open thoracotomy surgery in April 2020. Fortunately, inal histological evaluation could exclude both lung carcinoma and metastases to the lung. In brief, destroyed lung syndrome is an end-stage destructive and suppurative lung disorder secondary to essentially infectious diseases, leading to necrotizing pneumonia [1]. Resective surgery was urgently needed because of ongoing immunotherapy due to previously known lymphatic spread of metastasizing breast carcinoma.