title: [Postoperative fever and prognosis in breast cancer].
abstract: Retrospectively 378 patients with primary cancer of all stages, treated between 1975 and 1982 were studied again after an interval of at least 3 years. During this time 75 (19.8%) tumor recurrences were observed; in 47 cases (12.4%) distant metastases and in 28 cases (7.4%) local recurrences. Fever was defined as body temperature above 37.5 degrees C from the second postoperative day onward. Postoperative fever occurred in 45% of the patients; stage I 41%, stage II 45%, stage III 59% and stage IV 50%. Considering tumor recurrence there was a fever frequency of 69%, irrespective of stage, which in stage III reached 86% in cases with distant metastases and even 100% in cases with local recurrence. In comparison fever frequency in patients without evidence of recurrence was 36% to 40%. The relative risk of recurrence after postoperative fever increases significantly: in stage II 2.4 times and in stage III 10.6 times. Analysis of postoperative fever revealed, that short drainage time below 6 days and volumes of drained fluid below 400 ml were prognostically infavorable, while wound complications were not associated with an increased risk of tumor recurrence.
authors: Universitäts-Frauenklinik Tübingen.
authors: G
authors: G
authors: Teucher
authors: A E
authors: AE
authors: Schindler
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D005334:Fever / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008408:Mastectomy; D008875:Middle Aged; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000453:epidemiology; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011379:Prognosis; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors
vernacular_title: Postoperatives Fieber und Prognose des Mammakarzinoms.