Cellulitis of the breast as a complication of breast-conserving surgery and irradiation

American Journal of Clinical Oncology: Cancer Clinical Trials

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 338-341

  Hughes, Lone L ^a,c   Styblo, Toncred M ^a   Thoms, William W ^a   Schwarzmann, Stephen W ^a   Landry, Jerome C ^a   Heaton, Diane ^b   Carlson, Grant W ^a   Wood, William C ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c EMORY CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Axillary dissection; Breast cancer; Breast conserving therapy; Cellulitis; Irradiation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BLOOD CULTURE; BREAST CANCER; CELLULITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COUNSELING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRRADIATION; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AXILLA; BREAST; BREAST DISEASES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CELLULITIS; CYSTS; EDEMA; ERYTHEMA; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PARACENTESIS; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RECURRENCE; SKIN TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0030854111     PISSN: 02773732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000421-199708000-00003     Document Type: Article

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