Sealants after axillary lymph node dissection for breast cancer: good intentions but bad results

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 198, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 55-58

  Taflampas, Panagiotis ^a   Sanidas, Elias ^a   Christodoulakis, Manousos ^a   Askoxylakis, John ^a   Melissas, John ^a   Tsiftsis, Dimitrios D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

Author keywords

Axillary lymph node dissection; Breast cancer; Complications; Glue; Lymphocele; Sealant

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; GLUTARALDEHYDE; MACROGOL; SEALANT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY REACTION; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPHOCELE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOREIGN-BODY REACTION; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; LYMPHOCELE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROTEINS; REOPERATION; SUCTION; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 67649622571     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2008.06.043     Document Type: Article

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