Table 2 Treatment of patients, adjuvant therapy, hospital stay and complications
Sub-group | Local anaesthetic group | Standard group | P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Breast surgical procedure (n = 73) | Mastectomy; one-sided | 23 | 24 | 0.58 |
Mastectomy; two-sided | 7 | 6 | ||
Lymph node surgical procedure | Axillary lymphadenectomy | 6 | 5 | 1.00 |
Sentinel lymph node biopsy; one sided | 21 | 22 | 1.00 | |
Sentinel lymph node biopsy; two-sided | 3 | 3 | ||
Without sentinel | 6 | 5 | ||
Reconstruction | Expander; one-sided | 21 | 20 | 1.00 |
Expander; two-sided | 9 | 10 | ||
Median duration of surgical procedure, minutes | 140 | 120 | 0.62 | |
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy | Yes | 4 | 3 | 1.00 |
No | 26 | 27 | ||
Postoperative chemotherapy | Yes | 13 | 10 | 0.60 |
No | 17 | 20 | ||
Postoperative radiotherapy | Yes | 9 | 3 | 0.11 |
No | 21 | 27 | ||
Hormone therapy | Yes | 17 | 19 | 0.79 |
No | 13 | 11 | ||
Hospitalisation, days | 5.2 | 5.4 | 0.61 | |
Haematoma | 2 | 1 | 1.00 | |
Revision | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | |
Inflammation | 1 | 3 | 0.61 |