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- Title
Impact of incisional negative pressure wound therapy on perineal wound healing after abdominoperineal rectum extirpation.
- Authors
Wiegering, Armin; Dietz, Ulrich; Corteville, Caroline; Plaßmeier, Lars; Jurowich, Christian; Germer, Christoph-Thomas; Krajinovic, Katica
- Abstract
Introduction: Perineal wound healing disorders are one of the major complications following abdominoperineal rectum extirpation. Methods and results: We evaluated the impact of an 'incisional negative pressure wound therapy' (iNPWT) system after abdominoperineal rectum extirpation in six patients. All patients had a neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy with 50.4 Gy and 5-FU. Five of the six patients (83%) experienced complication-free healing of the perineal wound after 5 to 12 days of iNPWT. One patient developed a wound healing disorder 8 days after abdominoperineal rectum extirpation during current iNPWT. Discussion: Use of an iNPWT system can be of favor after abominoperineal rectum extirpation.
- Subjects
NEGATIVE-pressure wound therapy; COLON cancer patients; ABDOMINOPERINEAL resection; PERINEAL care; SURGICAL complications
- Publication
International Journal of Colorectal Disease, 2017, Vol 32, Issue 2, p291
- ISSN
0179-1958
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00384-016-2704-5