title: Left breast necrosis following cardiac bypass surgery.
abstract: The following is a case report of left breast necrosis following coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) in a woman previously treated for a stage I breast carcinoma. To our knowledge this is the first such report of its kind in the literature. We believe that breast tumor extirpation and internal mammary artery utilization in combination are not sufficient insults on the vascularity of the breast to account for necrosis, but rather we feel that a variety of conditions are necessary for vascular compromise to occur.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA.
authors.forename: Francis
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Rosato
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Schaner
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Chojnacki
authors.forename: Ernest L
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Rosato
mesh_terms: D001940:Breast / Q000098:blood supply / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008323:Mammary Arteries / Q000601:surgery*; D008408:Mastectomy; D008875:Middle Aged; D009336:Necrosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery