Effect of Gentamicin Lavage of the Axillary Surgical Bed After Lymph Node Dissection on Drainage Discharge Volume

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2012-09-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

The effect of axillary lavage with a gentamicin solution before wound closure will reduce the drainage volume and subsequently day of drainage removal.

• Phase: Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Hospital General Universitario Elche
• Treatments: Gentamicins; Pharmaceutical Solutions

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• diagnosis of mammary neoplasms and plans to undergo an elective ALND of Berg´s levels I and II due to axillary metastasis determined preoperatively by core biopsy or evidence of metastasis in the SLNB in the intraoperative or in the differed analysis.

Exclusion Criteria:

• chronic renal failure due to possible toxicity of gentamicin

• patients undergoing a modified radical mastectomy.