Jumpei Shibata, Hidetaka Kawamura, Kazuhiro Hiramatsu, Michitaka Honda, Yoshihisa Shibata, Taro Aoba, Masahiro Fujii, Atsuki Arimoto, Akira Ito, Kenta Ishii, Kojiro Omiya, Mariko Asai, Takuya Arakawa, Hirotake Gonda, Shuhei Asai, Takuya Hasegawa, Kento Kawashima, Takehito Kato
PURPOSE: There is no concrete evidence to support the association between the amount of subcutaneous fat area (SFA) in the central venous port-insertion site (precordium) and port-related complications. We aimed to investigate the relationship between SFA in the midclavicular line and postoperative infectious complications in patients undergoing port-insertion surgery. METHODS: This was a single-institute and historical cohort study of 174 patients who underwent first central venous port implantation surgery for chemotherapy between January 2014 and December 2018...
September 2021: Supportive Care in Cancer