Table 3.
Surgery characteristics
| Variable | Median and range/frequency |
|---|---|
| Duration of surgery (min) | 138 (105–208) |
| Preoperative wire marking | |
| Yes | 8 (80%) |
| No | 2 (20%) |
| Axillary surgery | |
| SLNB | 6 (60%) |
| ALND | 4 (40%) |
| Skin incision type | |
| Semicircular | 8 (80%) |
| Radial | 0 (0%) |
| Unknown | 2 (20%) |
| Overlying skin excised | 3 (30%) |
| Weight of main specimen (g; n = 5) | 20 (12–38) |
| Volume of main specimen (cm3) | 63.1 (15.3–200) |
| Sonographic tumor-skin distance (mm; n = 5) | 12 (9–20) |
| Applicator size | |
| 5 cm | 5 (50%) |
| 4.5 cm | 2 (20%) |
| 4 cm | 0 (0%) |
| 3.5 cm | 2 (20%) |
| 3 cm | 1 (10%) |
| Oncoplastic surgery | |
| Yes | 6 (60%) |
| No | 3 (30%) |
| Unknown | 1 (10%) |
| Breast wound drain | 9 (90%) |
| Duration of breast drainage (d) | 3 (1–8) |
| Overall breast drainage output (ml) | 80 (5–700) |
| Axillary wound drain | 5 (50%) |
| Duration of axilla drainage (d) | 2 (1–3) |
| Overall axilla drainage output (ml) | 20 (10–70) |
| Postoperative antibiotic prophylaxis with oral cefuroxime for 3 days | |
| Yes | 8 (80%) |
| No | 2 (20%) |
| Duration of hospital stay (d) | 6 (3–12) |
SLNB sentinel lymph node biopsy, ALND axillary lymph node dissection