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• TITLE: Lymph Fistulas after Inguinal Lymph Node Dissection—Assessment of Risk Factors and Future Treatment Strategies

  AUTHORS: Nils Habbe, Alexander Reinisch, Wolf Otto Bechstein, Sabine Hannes

  KEYWORDS: Lymph Fistula, Inguinal Lymph Node, Lymphadenectomy, Wound Infection

  JOURNAL NAME: Surgical Science, Vol.5 No.4, April 24, 2014

  ABSTRACT: Background: Inguinal lymph node dissections (ILND) have been commonly associated with postoperative complications such as lymphedema, lymph fistula and wound infections. The reported complication rates after ILND range from 14% - 77%, and a rationale for these large differences is the use of a variety of different definitions of complications. Patients and Methods: Files of patients that underwent inguinal lymph node dissection for lymph node metastases at the Department of General and Visceral Surgery of the University Hospital Frankfurt between February 2005 and March 2012 were retrospectively reviewed. Results: 47 patients (65%) developed a lymphatic fistula in the course of the operation, of which 6 patients (8%) underwent reoperations. Surgical side infections (SSI) were seen in 15 patients (21%), all of them harbouring fistulas. Patients presenting with a BMI ≥ 30 kg/m2 did not develop more fistulas than those with a BMI 2 (p = 0.30). Patients who suffered from a lymph fistula had significantly more visits in the outpatient clinic (p =