Table 3 Number of patients with postoperative complications in different times after regional (n = 18) and radical (n = 18) mastectomy
From: Surgical stress and postoperative complications related to regional and radical mastectomy in dogs
Postoperative complications | Group 1 Regional mastectomy | Group 2 Radical mastectomy | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
T6 | T7 | T8 | T9 | T10 | Total | T6 | T7 | T8 | T9 | T10 | Total | |
Posterior limb edema | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 14 |
Hematoma | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 12 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 9 | 19 |
Dehiscence | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
Subcutaneous emphysema | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
Infection | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 15 |
Bleeding | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Seroma | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Hyperesthesia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
Allodynia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Total | 1 | 1 | 2 | 25 | 23 | 52 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 25 | 25 | 66 |