Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9316180 | The Breast | 2005 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
Although there had not been complaints of excessive sweating pre-operatively, it was noticed incidentally that a large proportion of patients who had undergone axillary lymph node sampling or clearance for breast carcinoma seemed to report ipsilateral sweat loss as a pleasing 'complication'. We interviewed 65 consecutive patients who had all had axillary dissections performed by the same surgeon's technique; the interviews were held 2-102 months after their operations. In 36 cases, patients reported no change in axillary sweating (mean 35 months), whereas 29 patients reported a decrease (mean 50 months). This result was statistically significant at the 95% confidence interval (p=0.022).
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Authors
A. Subramanian, K.J Starr-Marshall, G.T. Layer,