Managing breast gangrene during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ann R Coll Surg Engl
; 103(5): e141-e143, 2021 May.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1121494
ABSTRACT
At the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, a 63-year-old woman with multiple life-limiting comorbidities was referred with a necrotic infected left breast mass on a background of breast cancer treated with conservation surgery and radiotherapy 22 years previously. The clinical diagnosis was locally advanced breast cancer, but four separate biopsies were non-diagnostic. Deteriorating renal function and incipient sepsis and endocarditis resulted in urgent salvage mastectomy during the peak of the COVID19 pandemic. The final diagnosis was infected ischaemic/infarcted breast (wet gangrene) secondary to vascular insufficiency related to diabetes, cardiac revascularisation surgery and breast radiotherapy.
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Main subject:
Breast
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Diabetic Angiopathies
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Enterobacteriaceae Infections
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Negative-Pressure Wound Therapy
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Gangrene
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Mastectomy
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Mastitis
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Anti-Bacterial Agents
Type of study:
Case report
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Diagnostic study
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Prognostic study
Topics:
Long Covid
Limits:
Female
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Humans
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Middle aged
Language:
English
Journal:
Ann R Coll Surg Engl
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Rcsann.2020.7068
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