Necrotizing Breast Infection: A Rare Entity and a Management Challenge
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Necrotizing infection of the breast associated with pre-existing malignancy, is a rarely encountered clinical scenario. This rarity, coupled with its potential life-threatening consequences and the complexities introduced by treatments like neoadjuvant chemotherapy and immunotherapy, highlights the need for timely and accurate intervention. We present the case of a 51-year-old female who was diagnosed with inflammatory triple-negative breast cancer. After undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy and immunotherapy, she developed a necrotizing infection of the breast. This required emergency surgical debridement and palliative mastectomy to remove the source of infection. This case underscores the crucial role of surgical management in such complex scenarios, particularly in the context of sepsis. J Curr Surg. 2024;14(1):11-16 doi: https://doi.org/10.14740/jcs474
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".