The present study contains a retrospective analysis of thirty medical reports of patients that were submitted to mastectomy at a school hospital, and has the objective of knowing the frequency of surgical injury infection, relating it to predisposed factors to infection. The frequency founded was 40%, a percentage above the level pointed in the literature, suggesting that can be included in it cases of seroma, due the indicators utilized to define infection and the absence of laboratory exams registers in the consulted medical reports.
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