Summary: | Surgical treatment of lactational mastitis is one of the most pressing issues of
modern medicine, because some aspects of surgical intervention and effective treatment of
postpartum mastitis remain controversial. For example, the use of minimally invasive
methods of surgical treatment of various forms of lactational mastitis, the possibility of
continuing breastfeeding, effective antibiotic therapy, etc. We analyzed Russian and Foreign
literature devoted to key issues of surgical treatment of lactational mastitis. The article
presents various points of view devoted to traditional methods of instrumental diagnostics,
peculiarities of etiology, pathogenesis, and clinic of lactational mastitis. Separately, the
main problems of breastfeeding in lactational mastitis and hardware methods of sanitation
of the purulent cavity are considered. Special attention is paid to minimally invasive methods
of treatment of postpartum mastitis.
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