Title: evaluation of ultrasonic axillary dissection in preservation of intercostobrachial nerve and lymphatic sealing in breast cancer patients: randomized controlled trial source: annals of medicine and surgery 60 (2020) 255¿260 available online 1 november 2020, 2049-0801/© 2020 the authors.Published by elsevier ltd on behalf of ijs publishing group ltd.(http://creativecommons.Org/licenses/by/4.0/).If information is provided in the future, a supplemental report will be issued.
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According to the literature, a prospective study analyzed post-operative complications in 40 patients who underwent breast surgery for breast cancer between january 2017 and september 2019.The harmonic scalpel was used for axillary lymph node dissection (alns) in 20 patients and electrocautery was used alns in 20 patients.In all patients, electrocautery was used to create the skin flaps and separate the breast together with pectoral fascia from the underlying pectoralis major muscle.Post-operative complications in patients who underwent alns with electrocautery were: hematoma, seroma, wound infection and axillary numbness.Interventions for the complications were not specified.
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