RADICAL MASTECTOMY TECHNIQUE Russian patent published in 2009 - IPC A61M27/00 A61B17/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine, namely to radical mastectomy technique in breast cancer surgery. Radical mastectomy involves vacuum-drainage established in axillary region before skin closure, combined with establishing two auxiliary drainages through counterincisions of superior and inferior skin grafts in interior wound angle, thereafter attached to skin with interrupted suturing. The drainages are opposed, and the end of the superior drainage is positioned at final mobilisation point of the inferior skin graft, while the end of the inferior drainage is located at final mobilisation point of superior skin graft. Then the ends of each said drainage is attached to greater pectoral muscle. The postoperative period involves continuous irrigation of an incisional wound within the first 24 hours with normal saline 0.9% droplet injected into the superior and inferior drainages at rate 1.7 ml/min, and evacuated through the vacuum-drainage established in axillary area. Then the superior and inferior drainages are removed, and wound discharge is aspirated through the drainage in axillary area.

EFFECT: method allows for short-term radical mastectomy lymphorrhagia in the patients suffering from breast cancer.

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