Current puzzles presented by postmastectomy oedema (breast cancer related lymphoedema)

Vascular Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 213-225

  Stanton, Awb ^a   Levick, J R ^a   Mortimer, P S ^a,b  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARM EDEMA; BREAST CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKINFOLD THICKNESS;

EID: 0029834427     PISSN: 1358863X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1358863X9600100306     Document Type: Review

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