Cutaneous vascular control in the arms of women with postmastectomy oedema

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 447-464

  Stanton, Anthony W B ^a   Levick, J Rodney ^a   Mortimer, Peter S ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TAMOXIFEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARM EDEMA; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINGER; FOREARM; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MASTECTOMY; REFLEX; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SKIN BLOOD VESSEL; SYMPATHETIC NERVE CELL; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATATION;

EID: 0029955250     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.1996.sp003948     Document Type: Article

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