Effectiveness of acupuncture and moxibustion treatment for lymphedema following intrapelvic lymph node dissection: A preliminary report

American Journal of Chinese Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 37-43

  Kanakura, Yoichi ^a   Niwa, Kuniaki ^a   Kometani, Kunio ^a   Nakazawa, Kazumi ^a   Yamaguchi, Yoko ^a   Ishikawa, Hiroshi ^a   Watanabe, Asaka ^a   Tokunaga, Yasumoto ^a  

^a FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acupuncture and Moxibustion Treatments; Deep Body Temperature; Gynecologic Malignant Tumor; Lymph Node Dissection; Lymphedema

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT TUMOR; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPHEDEMA; PELVIS LYMPH NODE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; MOXIBUSTION; PATHOLOGY; PELVIS; PHYSIOLOGY; SKIN TEMPERATURE;

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; AGED; BODY TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHEDEMA; MIDDLE AGED; MOXIBUSTION; PELVIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SKIN TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0036050684     PISSN: 0192415X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0192415X02000041     Document Type: Article

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