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Immediate lymphedema reconstruction (ILR) has been proposed to reduce the occurrence of arm lymphedema by anastomosing the transected arm lymphatics to nearby branches of the axillary vein immediately after ALND. This study aims to demonstrate that ILR can also reduce the postoperative drainage amount.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Patients and Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Between April 2020 and January 2022, a total of 76 breast cancer patients receiving ALND were reviewed. Forty four of them also received ILR immediately after ALND. The assignment of ILR surgery was non\u2010random, based on patients' willingness and plastic surgeons' availability. The lymphatic vessels in the axillary wound were anastomosed with nearby terminal branches of the axillary vein under surgical microscope. Patients' characteristics, including age, body mass index (BMI), neoadjuvant therapy, type of breast surgery, the occurrence of seroma formation, number of removed lymph nodes, number of positive nodes, and the drainage amount from the operative wounds were compared between ILR and non\u2010ILR groups.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>No statistically significant difference was noted between groups in terms of age (56.5\u2009\u00b1\u20099.8 vs. 60.9\u2009\u00b1\u200910.7, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u00a0=\u00a0.09), BMI (22.6\u2009\u00b1\u20093.7 vs. 23.7\u2009\u00b1\u20093.8, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u00a0=\u00a0.27), type of breast surgery (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u00a0=\u00a0.32), the occurrence of seroma formation (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u00a0=\u00a01.0), the likelihood of receiving neoadjuvant therapy (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u00a0=\u00a0.12), number of lymph nodes removed (17.5\u2009\u00b1\u20097.6 vs. 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