Severe anaphylactic reaction after blue dye injection for sentinel lymph node biopsy in breast surgery: Report of two cases and literature review

Maximos Frountzas; Charalampos Theodoropoulos; Panagiotis Karathanasis; Christina Nikolaou; Constantinos G Zografos; Andreas Larentzakis; George C Zografos; Nikolaos V Michalopoulos

doi:10.1002/ccr3.3904

Severe anaphylactic reaction after blue dye injection for sentinel lymph node biopsy in breast surgery: Report of two cases and literature review

Clin Case Rep. 2021 May 7;9(7):10.1002/ccr3.3904. doi: 10.1002/ccr3.3904. eCollection 2021 Jul.

Authors

Maximos Frountzas¹, Charalampos Theodoropoulos¹, Panagiotis Karathanasis¹, Christina Nikolaou², Constantinos G Zografos³, Andreas Larentzakis¹, George C Zografos¹, Nikolaos V Michalopoulos^{1

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Affiliations

¹ 1st Department of Propaedeutic Surgery Medical School University of Athens "Hippocratio" General Hospital Athens Greece.
² Laboratory of Experimental Surgery and Surgical Research "N. S. Christeas" Medical School University of Athens Athens Greece.
³ 1st Department of Surgery Medical School University of Athens "Laiko" General Hospital Athens Greece.
⁴ 4th Department of Surgery Medical School University of Athens "Attikon" University Hospital Chaidari Greece.

Abstract

Anaphylactic reactions, and especially the severe ones (types III and IV), should be kept in mind as considerable adverse effects while using blue dyes for SLNB.

Keywords: acute medicine; allergy and immunology; critical care medicine; general surgery.

Publication types

Case Reports