Lymphedema development following breast cancer surgery with full axillary resection

Lymphology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 206-208

  Van Der Veen, Ph ^a,b   De Voogdt, N ^a   Lievens, P ^a   Duquet, W ^a   Lamote, J ^a   Sacre, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARM; ARM INJURY; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CALCULATION; CANCER SURGERY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEIGHT; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHADENECTOMY; LYMPHEDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RECORD; MENOPAUSE; OBESITY; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WEIGHT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARM INJURIES; AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; LYMPHEDEMA; MASTECTOMY; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; RADIOTHERAPY; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 11444249528     PISSN: 00247766     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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