Breast surgery

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Breast surgery
Specialtyplastic surgery or oncological

Breast surgery is a form of surgery performed on the breast.

Types

Types include:

Complications

After surgical intervention to the breast, complications may arise related to wound healing. As in other types of surgery, hematoma (post-operative bleeding), seroma (fluid accumulation), or incision-site breakdown (wound infection) may occur.

axillary lymph node dissection[5][6]), breast asymmetry, and chronic/recurrent breast cellulitis, each of these having long-term effects.[7]

Ultrasound can be used to distinguish between seroma, hematoma, and edema in the breast.[8] Further possible complications are fat necrosis (premature cell death of fat cells) and scar retraction (shrinking of the area around the surgical scar). In rare cases after breast reconstruction or augmentation, late seroma may occur, defined as seroma occurring more than 12 months postoperatively.[9]

There is preliminary evidence suggesting that negative-pressure wound therapy may be useful in healing complicated breast wounds resulting from surgery.[10]

Postoperative pain is common following breast surgery. The incidence of poorly controlled acute postoperative pain following breast cancer surgery ranges between 14.0% to 54.1%.

persistent postoperative pain three to 12 months after breast cancer surgery.[12]

In post-surgical medical imaging, many findings can easily be mistaken for cancer.[13] In MRI, scars that occurred many years before are normally "silent".[4]

References

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  13. ^ Postsurgical breast imaging, Medscape, last updated 11 November 2013
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