If no immediate reconstruction is planned, surgical drains are left in place to prevent fluid accumulation. The skin is sutured and bandages are applied.
The surgical drains must be attended to properly; this includes emptying the drain, measuring fluid output, moving clots through the drain, and identifying problems that need attention from the doctor or nurse.
Removal of the breast is a Mastectomy.
Yes, mastectomy is the correct spelling.
The radical mastectomy, also called the Halsted mastectomy, is rarely performed today.
A modified radical mastectomy is the most common type of mastectomy performed today.
The duration of Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy is 2 hours.
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a radial mastectomy is when a surgeon removes the entire breast and tissues of a cancerous person
Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy was created on 2006-10-23.
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.
The mast- in mastectomy refers to "breast." The suffix -ectomy means "surgical removal."