linguine sign

linguine sign

a sign of rupture of the completely collapsed shell of a silicon breast prosthesis, as seen on imaging by either MRI or CT.
A fanciful term for the appearance of T2-weighted MR images of a breast with a ruptured implant, which is characterized by multiple fine, curvilinear low-signal-intensity strands of silicone—the 'linguine'—which correspond to the collapsed implant shell, within the high-signal-intensity gel—the 'linguine sauce'