Validation of an opeoelectronic lomb volumeter (perometer)

Lymphology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 77-97

  Stanton, A W B ^a   Northfield, J W ^a   Holroyd, B ^a   Mortime, P S ^a   Levick, J R ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARM BLOOD FLOW; ARM EDEMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEG BLOOD FLOW; LEG EDEMA; LYMPHEDEMA; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VEIN OCCLUSION PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; VOLUMETRY; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARM; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HISTOLOGY; INSTRUMENTATION; LEG; MALE; OPTICS; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARM; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; LYMPHEDEMA; MALE; OPTICS; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0030612630     PISSN: 00247766     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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