Persistent seroma after intraoperative placement of MammoSite for accelerated partial breast irradiation: Incidence, pathologic anatomy, and contributing factors

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 333-339

  Evans, Suzanne B ^a   Kaufman, Seth A ^a   Price, Lori Lyn ^a   Cardarelli, Gene ^b   Dipetrillo, Thomas A ^a,b   Wazer, David E ^a,b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerated partial breast irradiation; Breast cancer; MammoSite; Radiotherapy; Seroma

Indexed keywords

BIOPSY; DOSIMETRY; PATHOLOGY; SURGERY; TUMORS;

ACCELERATED PARTIAL BREAST IRRADIATION; BREAST CANCER; MAMMOSITE; SEROMA;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; COLLAGEN; HORMONE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CATHETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DOSIMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; FIBROBLAST; FOLLOW UP; GIANT CELL; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAMMOGRAPHY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; REOPERATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SEROMA; SMOKING; SQUAMOUS CELL METAPLASIA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, INTRADUCTAL, NONINFILTRATING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RECURRENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEROMA; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 33646242268     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2005.12.045     Document Type: Article

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