Aetiology of seroma formation in patients undergoing surgery for breast cancer

Breast

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 144-148

  McCaul, J A ^a   Aslaam, A ^a   Spooner, R J ^b   Louden, I ^b   Cavanagh, T ^a   Purushotham, A D ^a  

^a WESTERN INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Clinical Biochemistry Service   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EXUDATE; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH; PLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROMA; WOUND DRAINAGE;

EID: 0034076803     PISSN: 09609776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/brst.1999.0126     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Ashikari R H. Modified radical mastectomy. Surg Clin North Am. 64:1984;1095-1102.
2. Tejler G, Aspegren K. Complications and hospital stay after surgery for breast cancer: a prospective study of 385 patients. Br J Surg. 72:1985;542-544.
3. Cohen A M, Schaeffer N, Chen Z Y, Wood W C. Early discharge after modified radical mastectomy. Am J surg. 151:1986;465-466.
4. Budd D C, Cochran R C, Sturtz D L, Fouty W J Jr. Surgical morbidity after mastectomy operations. Am J Surg. 135:1978;370-376.
5. Say C C, Donegan W. A biostatistical evaluation of complications from mastectomy. Surg Gynaecol Obstet. 138:1974;370-376.
6. Tadych K, Donegan W L. Postmastectomy seromas and wound drainage. Surg Gynaecol Obstet. 165:1987;483-488.
7. Spratt J S, Donegan W L. Surgical management. Donegan W, Spratt J S. Cancer of the Breast. 1979;302-349 W. B. Saunders, Philadelphia.
8. Kumar S, Lal B, Misra M C. Post-mastectomy seroma: a new look into the aetiology of an old problem. J R Coll Surg Edinb. 40:1995;292-294.
9. Boman L, Bjorrell H, Cedermark B, Theve N O, Wilking N. Effect of early discharge from hospital after surgery for primary breast cancer. Eur J Surg. 159:1993;67-73.
10. Holcombe C, West N, Mansell R E, Horgan K. The satisfaction and savings of early discharge with drain in situ following axillary lymphadenectomy in the treatment of breast cancer. Eur J Surg Oncol. 21:1995;604-606.
11. Bonnema J, van Wersch AMEA, van Geel A N. Medical and psychosocial effects of early discharge after surgery for breast cancer: randomised trial. BMJ. 316:1998;1267-1271.
12. O'Dwyer P J, O'Higgins N J. Effect of closing dead space on incidence of seroma after mastectomy. Surg Gynecol Obstet. 172:1991;55-56.
13. Watt-Boolsen S, Nielsen V B, Jensen J, Bak S. Postmastectomy seroma. A study of the nature and origin of seroma after mastectomy. Dan Med Bull. 36:1989;487-489.
14. Bryant M, Baum M. Postoperative seroma following mastectomy and axillary dissection. Br J Surg. 74:1987;1187.
15. Gorewitt R C, Ostensson K, Ansrom G, Svennersten K. Flow and composition of afferent mammary gland lymph. J Dairy Sci. 76:1993;1539-1543.
16. Aitken D R, Hunsaker R, James A G. Prevention of seromas following mastectomy and partial axillary dissection. Surg Gynecol Obstet. 158:1984;327-330.
17. Purushotham A D, McLatchie E. Avoiding wound drainage in surgery for primary breast cancer. The Breast. 7:1998;227-228.