[Local recurrences after mastectomy for cancer (author's transl)].

The Authors, in a review of 162 patients submitted to mastectomy for cancer, have considered the incidence of local recurrences related to the type of operation and to the clinical stage of primitive neoplasia. Particularly, the percentage of local recurrences does not seem to be related to the type of surgical procedure employed but rather to the presence of metastatic lymph nodes at the time of the first treatment of neoplasia. Is also related the treatment of the local recurrences observed and the detained data are compared with that reported in the literature, particularly about the mechanisms of formation, the incidence and the types of treatment.