A controlled clinical trial has been performed to compare the effectiveness of suction drainage with that of static drainage. The trial has shown that in 53 radical mastectomy wounds the rate of wound healing was faster in those cases in which suction drainage was used, with a reduction in incidence of wound infection, breakdown, and necrosis.
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A.M. Morris (1973) studied this question.
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