Breast biopsy: a trial of wound drainage.
A prospective randomized trial of wound drainage has been performed in a series of ninety-two patients undergoing one hundred breast biopsies. The overall incidence of wound hematoma was 14 per cent but the insertion of a wound drain did not protect against the development of wound hematoma. The wound infection rate was 1 per cent.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001706:Biopsy / Q000379:methods*; D001941:Breast Diseases / Q000473:pathology; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D004322:Drainage; D005260:Female; D006406:Hematoma; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection