Quilting following mastectomy reduces seroma, associated complications and health care consumption without impairing patient comfort.

Background: An important complication following mastectomy is seroma formation. Quilting, in which skin flaps are sutured to the underlying muscle, is reported to reduce seroma incidence, but might induce pain and impair shoulder function. Main objective is to compare quilting with conventional wound closure, regarding seroma incidence, health care consumption, and patient discomfort.

Can Gentamicin-collagen Sponges Prevent Seroma Formation Following Mastectomy?

Background: The aim of this study was to investigate whether gentamicin-collagen (GC) sponges can lower the incidence of seroma and surgical site infections following breast cancer surgery.

Patients And Methods: A retrospective cohort study was performed. Two consecutive cohorts of patients who underwent a mastectomy with or without an axillary lymph node dissection were compared.

Postoperative Complications After Breast Cancer Surgery are Not Related to Age.

Introduction: Consensus about surgical treatment options for breast cancer in elderly patients remains elusive due to exclusion from clinical trials. Fear of complications due to increased age often is an important factor in the choice of treatment and might result in different treatment of the older patient.

Methods: A total of 1258 female patients who underwent breast cancer surgery for primary diagnosed breast cancer in 2010-2014 were included.

Quilting prevents seroma formation following breast cancer surgery: closing the dead space by quilting prevents seroma following axillary lymph node dissection and mastectomy.

Background: Seroma is a frequent problem after mastectomy (ME) and axillary lymph node dissection (ALND). Seroma is associated with pain, discomfort, impaired mobilisation and repeated aspirations, often resulting in a surgical site infection (SSI). It has already been demonstrated that minimizing dead space through fixation of the skin flaps to the underlying muscles (quilting) lowers the incidence of seroma.