title: Cutaneous necrosis as a result of isosulphane blue injection in mammarian sentinel lymph node mapping: report of two cases.
abstract: Skin-sparing mastectomy with sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) and synchronous breast reconstruction are widely used in breast cancer surgery nowadays. Difficulties in feeling confident in this technique and postoperative surgical complications are the major obstacles against the widespread usage of this technique. Compared with the other surgical techniques, the complications are hard to treat. Cutaneous necrosis because of methylene blue used for sentinel lymph node mapping in patients who underwent skin-sparing mastectomy and SLNB is already reported in the literature. We present here two cases with cutaneous necrosis because of isosulphane blue injection after skin-sparing mastectomy and SLNB as a rare complication of dye injection.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Baskent University, Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Huseyin Y
authors.initials: HY
authors.lastname: Bircan
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Baskent University, Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Umit
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Ozcelik
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Baskent University, Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Bora
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Koc
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Yuzuncu Yil Universitesi, Medical Faculty, Van, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ozgur
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Kemik
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Baskent University, Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Alp
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Demirag
keywords: cutaneous necrosis; isosulphane blue; sentinel lymph node mapping