Ahmed Osama Ahmed Abdelhameed Boulot <br/><br/>
The role of tetracycline local injection in treating postmastectomy seroma /  
 دور الحقن الموضعي لمادة التيتراسيكلين في علاج التورم المصلي ما بعد عملية إستئصال الثدي 
Ahmed Osama Ahmed Abdelhameed Boulot ; Supervised Ramadan Ahmed Morra , Omar Sherif Omar , Tarek Osama Hegazy 
 - Cairo :   Ahmed Osama Ahmed Abdelhameed Boulot ,   2014 
 - 93 P. :   charts , facsimiles ;   25cm 
<br/><br/>Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of General Surgery 
<br/><br/> Seroma is the most common complication following mastectomy . Tetracycline , as a sclerosing agent, has long been used in the treatment of  postmastectomy seroma. The present study was carried out to evaluate the efficacy of tetracycline local injection for treating postmastectomy seroma in 20 female patients. 11 patients (55%) responded well to the treatment from the first session, while treatment was not effective in 7 patients (35%) , and 2 patients (10%) had infected wounds. Tetracycline is a feasible and cheap treatment of postmastectomy seroma 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Breast cancer  Postmastectomy  seroma   Tetracycline