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Mastitis surgery
Introduction
Overview
Overview
Surgical intervention is usually not the first treatment option for patients with mastitis. Surgery is usually reserved for complicated mastitis with abscess formation that needs to be drained and granulomatous mastitis that may need excision.[1][2][3][4]
Surgery
Surgery
Surgical intervention is usually not the first treatment option for patients with mastitis.
Indications for surgery
The indications of surgery in mastitis include:[1][2][3][4]
- Complicated mastitis with abscess formation that needs to be drained
- Granulomatous mastitis that may need excision.
References
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Rogmans G (2003). “[Mastitis puerperalis]”. Zentralbl Gynakol. 125 (2): 35–7. doi:10.1055/s-2003-40369. PMID 12836116.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Stromps JP, Na HS, Grieb G, Orlikowsky T, Kuhl C, Pallua N (2014). “Surgical treatment of neonatal mastitis by periareolar drainage”. Curr Pediatr Rev. 10 (4): 304–8. PMID 25594530.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 YabanoÄŸlu H, ÇolakoÄŸlu T, Belli S, Aytac HO, Bolat FA, Pourbagher A; et al. (2015). “A Comparative Study of Conservative versus Surgical Treatment Protocols for 77 Patients with Idiopathic Granulomatous Mastitis”. Breast J. 21 (4): 363–9. doi:10.1111/tbj.12415. PMID 25858348.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Yau FM, Macadam SA, Kuusk U, Nimmo M, Van Laeken N (2010). “The surgical management of granulomatous mastitis”. Ann Plast Surg. 64 (1): 9–16. doi:10.1097/SAP.0b013e3181a20cae. PMID 20023450.
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