ArticleAnnals of surgical oncology2017
Morbidity After Inguinal Lymph Node Dissections: It Is Time for a Change.
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- Don't Forget About New Pathology.Cureus · 2024Article
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- National Practice Patterns in the Management of the Regional Lymph Node Basin After Positive Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy for Cutaneous Melanoma.Annals of surgical oncology · 2022Article
- Predictive factors of neoadjuvant immune checkpoint blockade in melanoma.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2022Review
- Wound complications following surgery to the lymph nodes: A protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2022Article
- One-Year Morbidity Following Videoscopic Inguinal Lymphadenectomy for Stage III Melanoma.Cancers · 2021Article
- Complications and outcomes following inguinal lymphadenectomy for malignant melanoma in an Asian population.Korean journal of clinical oncology · 2020Article
- Progress on Management of Penile Cancer in 2020.Current treatment options in oncology · 2020Review
- Treatment of Inguinal Lymph Node Metastases in Patients with Rectal Adenocarcinoma.Annals of surgical oncology · 2019Article
- Recent advances in the management of penile cancer.F1000Research · 2019Review
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Abstract
backgroundInguinal lymph node dissection (ILND) for stage 3 melanoma is accompanied by high wound complication rates. During the past decades, several changes in perioperative care have been instituted to decrease the incidence of these complications. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of these different care protocols on wound complications after ILND.
methodsA retrospective analysis of prospectively collected data was performed with 240 patients who underwent an ILND in the University Medical Center Groningen between 1989 and 2014. Four groups with different treatment protocols were analyzed: A (≥10 days of bed rest with a Bohler Braun splint), B (10 days of bed rest without a splint), C (5 days of bed rest), and D (1 day of bed rest). The effect of early mobilization, abolishment of the Bohler Braun splint and postural restrictions, and the introduction of prophylactic antibiotics were analyzed.
resultsOne or more wound complications occurred in 51.2 % of the patients including wound infection (29.8 %), seroma (21.5 %), wound necrosis (13.6 %), and hematoma (5 %). In consecutive periods, respectively 44.4, 60.3, 44.9 and 55.2 % of the patients experienced wound complications. None of the instituted changes in protocols led to a decrease in wound complications.
conclusionChanges in perioperative care protocols did not affect the rate of wound complications. Perhaps a change in the surgical procedure itself can lead to the necessary reduction of wound complications after ILND.
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