What are the complications after breast cancer surgery?

What are the complications after breast cancer surgery? I believe many people have this question. Breast cancer surgery is a surface surgery, but due to the wide range of surgery and large trauma, many complications can occur after surgery. Let's learn about the complications of breast cancer .

1. Bleeding Bleeding is one of the common complications after cancer surgery, including breast cancer. This complication may occur after lumpectomy or radical resection. The causes of bleeding are often: 1. Incomplete hemostasis during surgery leaves active bleeding points; 2. After surgery, due to continuous negative pressure drainage, changes in body position or severe coughing, the electrocoagulated blood clots fall off or the ligature threads slip, leading to drainage bleeding; 3. The use of chemotherapy or hormone drugs before surgery makes the wound easy to bleed.

2. Effusion is one of the complications of breast cancer. Effusion refers to the accumulation of fluid between the skin flap and the chest wall or axilla, which causes the skin flap to be unable to adhere closely to the wound surface. It is also one of the common complications after breast tumor surgery. Common causes include: 1. Poor drainage prevents the exudate from the wound surface from being drained out in time and accumulates; 2. Blood coagulates in the wound surface to form blood clots, which cannot be drained out and then liquefy to form effusion; 3. When dissecting the lymphatic fat around the axillary vein, some small lymphatic vessels are damaged but not ligated, and poor drainage forms effusion, which generally occurs on the outside of the axilla; 4. When dissecting the axillary vein with an electric knife, the chance of effusion is greater than that of using a scalpel. The electric knife may have a certain effect on the healing of the wound surface, and some small lymphatic vessels are temporarily closed after dissection by the electric knife, and then open again after negative pressure suction to cause effusion; 5. In addition, there is a certain relationship between excessive tension of the skin flap, which makes it difficult to cover the wound, and premature removal of the drainage tube.

3. Upper limb edema. After radical mastectomy, the upper limbs are prone to edema due to the obstruction of lymphatic and blood return. The incidence of upper limb edema varies from 5% to 40% according to various reports. In recent years, the incidence of severe upper limb edema has dropped significantly and does not exceed 5%. This is also a complication of breast cancer.

The above is an introduction to the complications of breast cancer. Do you have some knowledge about breast cancer through the above content? I hope the above content can help you, and I also hope that patients can recover soon!

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