title: A primary axillary approach for the radical mastectomy operation.
abstract: A retrograde method for mastectomy that performs the axillary dissection first is described, and experience with eighty-six cases of infiltrating carcinomas of the breast treated in that manner is presented. The method has reduced the number of standard radical procedures by more than half, and a decrease in operative bleeding was noted.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001365:Axilla / Q000601:surgery; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008197:Lymph Node Excision; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000473:pathology; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008408:Mastectomy / Q000379:methods*; D008875:Middle Aged