NCT04677075

New Formula to Predict the Need for Reconstructive Coverage Following Mastectomy

New Formula to Predict Failure of Primary Closure and the Need for Reconstructive Coverage Following Mastectomy.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 74 (actual)
• Sponsor: Zagazig University · Other Government
• Sex: Female
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Mastectomy is a cornerstone operative procedure in breast cancer treatment leaving a raw area behind with possibility of failure of primary closure sometimes with unavailability of facilities of reconstruction. This opened the door for this research to find a formula to predict the need of reconstruction

Detailed description

Surgical intervention for breast cancer includes dealing with the primary tumour, added to it is the axillary dissection with variable options in both of them according to multiple factors. Mastectomy represents a part of several operations as radical and modified radical mastectomy, while in others it may be the whole operation as in palliative simple mastectomy. Moreover, re-excision of local recurrence is another form of surgical intervention. At the step of mastectomy or re-excision of locally recurrent disease, the challenge of closure may arise, as simple primary closure may not be possible because of wide wound gap. In this situation, reconstruction is unavoidably needed and this situation represents one of two situations in which reconstruction is indicated. As reconstruction sometimes needs certain expertise which may not be available momentarily and needs previous arrangement. Moreover sometimes mastectomy exceeds the previous expectation leaving a big gap beyond simple approximation, so the investigators developed a formula to assess the need of reconstructive coverage.

Conditions

• Breast Neoplasms

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	mastectomy	mastectomy either simple or modified radical

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-08-15
• Primary completion: 2023-08-15
• Completion: 2023-09-15
• First posted: 2020-12-21
• Last updated: 2024-02-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt