2013, Number 2
Complications of Breast Reconstruction in Oncological Patients of Regional Hospital 1° de Octubre, ISSSTE
Escandón EYM, Zepeda CEJ, Ibarra PÁS
Language: Spanish
References: 10
Page: 131-137
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ABSTRACT
Background: Breast cancer is a disease whose incidence is ever-increasing worldwide. The two pillars of the surgical treatment are: therapy of conservation of the breast, followed by total or partial breast irradiation and mastectomy.Objective: To report the most frequent complications during the last 4 years on patients who underwent oncological breast reconstruction due to mastectomies performed at Hospital Regional 1° de Octubre.
Material and method: The study was observational, descriptive, retrospective and transversal, and included 79 patients who underwent mastectomy with reconstruction with transverse rectus abdominus myocutaneous flap (TRAM), latissimus dorsi, expanders and breast prostheses.
Results: Complications appeared in 45.6% (n = 36) of patients with breast reconstruction, with a frequency of 33.3 and 66.7% for immediate and delayed procedures, respectively. Statistically significant difference was observed between the type of breast reconstruction (immediate and delayed) and the presence of complications (p = 0.002). The complications appeared concomitantly: at the donor site represented by 11.4%: infection + dehiscence in 5.1%; post incisional hernia 3.8% and post incisional hernia + infection 2.5%. And at the recipient site complications represented the 45.4%: flap necrosis, 8.9%; exposure of the expander/prosthesis, 8.9%; hematoma and seroma, 5.1%; infection/abscess flap, 5.1%; capsular contracture, 1.3% and more than two complications in 16%.
Conclusions: Complications of the receptor site occurred in a superior percentage than average referred in the literature.
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