Impact of incisional negative pressure wound therapy on perineal wound healing after abdominoperineal rectum extirpation
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Katica Krajinovic; Caroline Corteville; Christian Jurowich; Armin Wiegering; Christoph-Thomas Germer; Lars Plaßmeier; Ulrich A. Dietz
- Source
- International Journal of Colorectal Disease. 32:291-293
- Subject
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Colorectal cancer
medicine.medical_treatment
Rectum
Perineum
Surgical Flaps
030207 dermatology & venereal diseases
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Negative-pressure wound therapy
Internal medicine
Abdomen
Perineal wound
medicine
Humans
Major complication
Wound Healing
integumentary system
business.industry
General surgery
Gastroenterology
Middle Aged
Hepatology
medicine.disease
Surgery
medicine.anatomical_structure
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Female
business
Negative-Pressure Wound Therapy
- Language
- ISSN
- 1432-1262
0179-1958
Perineal wound healing disorders are one of the major complications following abdominoperineal rectum extirpation.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.Use of an iNPWT system can be of favor after abominoperineal rectum extirpation.