Determinants of Wound Infections After Surgery for Breast Cancer
A. Nieto, M. Lozano, M. T. Moro, J. Keller, C. Carralafuente · Zentralblatt für Gynäkologie · 2002 · Heft 8/9 · S. 429-433
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Abstract BACKGROUND: There are evident risks factors stemming from any the local post-surgical infection, which merits analysis of morbidity derived from conservative and radical surgery after treatment of the operable breast cancer. STUDY DESIGN: 107 patients with breast cancer recruited between November 1995 and October 1997 were evaluated. From that total, 36 patients were subjected to quadrantectomy, axillary lymphadenectomy and postoperative radiation while 71 patients were subjected to modified radical mastectomy. RESULTS: 7 % percent of patients who underwent modified radical surgery succumbed to postoper…