Preventing seroma formation after axillary dissection for breast cancer: A randomized clinical trial

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 203, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 708-714

  Iovino, Francesco ^a   Auriemma, Pasquale Pio ^a   Ferraraccio, Francesca ^a   Antoniol, Giulio ^b   Barbarisi, Alfonso ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Axillary dissection; Breast cancer; Harmonic scalpel; Seroma formation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY DISSECTION; BLEEDING; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CAUTERIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMATOMA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LIGATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCALPEL; SEROMA; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; THORAX DRAINAGE; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AXILLA; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEMOSTASIS, SURGICAL; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SEROMA; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 84861626499     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: 18791883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2011.06.051     Document Type: Article

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