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How many women develop lymphedema after axillary lymph node removal during a mastectomy?
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Approximately 10% to 20% of patients develop lymphedema after axillary lymph node removal. however if you get radiation your rate goes up to 50% and good chance of developing lymphedema
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Removal of the breast?
Removal of the breast is a Mastectomy.
Is a mastectomy a surgical removal of only the cancerous tissue?
Mastectomy is surgical removal of the whole breast. Lumpectomy is surgical removal of only the cancerous tissue.
What is the medical term meaning pertaining to one side removal of a breast?
A mastectomy is the surgical removal of one breast. A double mastectomy is the removal of both.
What is The removal of the mammary glands?
Mastectomy
Breast removal surgery called?
Mastectomy. Please see the related link below
What is the combining form for mastectomy?
The mast- in mastectomy refers to "breast." The suffix -ectomy means "surgical removal."
If a women had a mastectomy that included the removal of axillary lymph nodes on her left side What can she expect regarding her left arm and why?
She can expect severe localized edema along the arm, although some lymphatic drainage is eventually reestablished by regrowth of the vessels
Is the surgical removal of an entire breast and its nipple?
The surgical removal of the breast is called a mastectomy.
What is a simple mastectomy?
A simple mastectomy is the removal of only the breast tissue, nipple and a small portion of the overlying skin.
What do they call the removal of mammary gland?
Mastectomy
The term mastectomy relates to what organ?
The breast.The breast.The breast.The breast.The breast.The breast.
What is a toilet mastectomy?
Mastectomy is removal of breast tissue often due to cancer. The term toilet mastectomy is used when the cancer is so advanced that it has spread to the skin and has metastasized, and the mastectomy is done simply to improve appearance and quality of life and not done to cure the cancer.
