[New features in the course and outcome of treatment of lactation mastitis]

An analysis of the outcomes of the treatment of 150 patients with lactational mastitis has warranted the conclusion on a secondary origin of the disease in many cases. Not infrequently lactational mastitis occurred as a result of a pathological delivery and hospitalism, in 8% of patients lactational mastitis being nothing but a local manifestation of a general purulent infection--sepsis. In the most of patients a radical dissection of the abscess has proved to be an effective and sufficient therapeutic method. The greatest difficulties were encountered in the treatment of sepsis with necrosis, sequestration or fusion of vast portions of the mammary gland.