Outpatient treatment of non-lactational breast abscesses
- 1 January 1992
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in British Journal of Surgery
- Vol. 79 (1), 56-57
- https://doi.org/10.1002/bjs.1800790120
Abstract
Eighteen consecutive patients with non-lactational breast abscesses have been treated by aspiration (ten patients), surgical drainage after application of local anaesthetic cream (seven patients) or a combination of aspiration and local anaesthetic cream drainage (one patient) combined with a 2-week course of either amoxycillin and clavulanic acid or cephradine and metronidazole. All abscesses resolved completely within 2 weeks of treatment and all 18 patients expressed satisfaction with the method of treatment used. The majority of patients with breast abscesses can now be managed as outpatients.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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