Comparison of microvascular filtration in human arms with and without postmastectomy oedema

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 405-419

  Stanton, A W B ^a   Holroyd, B ^a   Mortimer, 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 EDEMA; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PERMEABILITY; BREAST CANCER; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDEMA; FEMALE; FILTRATION; FOREARM; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE; MASTECTOMY; MICROVASCULATURE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; STRAIN GAUGE TRANSDUCER; VEIN OCCLUSION PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; VENOCONSTRICTION; VENOUS PRESSURE;

EID: 0033024071     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-445X.1999.01810.x     Document Type: Article

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