INTRODUCTION The presence of postoperative seromadesis is common, corresponding to the presence of serum in the subcutaneous tissue post a surgical event. Erythromycin has been reported as sclerosing, although not in orthopedic surgery. We report a case of erythromycin seromadesis in orthopedic surgery. CASE PRESENTATION We present a case of a 63-year-old woman having undergone femoral prosth...

Abstract Background The aim of this study was to compare conventional suture with prolonged timing drainage quilting on the formation seroma at pectoral area after mastectomy (ME) sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLN) or axillary dissection (ALND) for breast cancer. Methods Three hundred and eighty-eight consecutive cancer patients were retrospectively analyzed categorized into three groups. Patient...

Materials and Methods: Electronic medical records of 282 patients (467 breasts) undergoing mastectomy with immediate reconstruction at our institution from 2010–2012 were reviewed to collect clinical and post-operative data. Charts were analysed to determine the association between the absolute number of axillary lymph nodes removed and post reconstructive incidence of skin necrosis, cellulitis...

Objective This study investigated the use of prosthetic condensed polytetrafluoroethylene (cPTFE) for laparoscopic ventral hernia repair (LVHR) in an outpatient community-hospital setting. Methods Patients underwent LVHR with cPTFE at one of three community hospitals. Primary endpoint was hernia recurrence at 1-year postoperatively. Secondary endpoints included pain, surgical site infection, me...

First, I would like to express my great admiration to Dr Swanson for providing a valuable example for the exercise of the scientific method. It is inevitable that his observations, accumulated from extensive experience, have generated a hypothesis to be tested and verified. The hypothesis that seroma is caused by thermal injury is by no means a new concept, and has been advocated by some author...