Stewart-Treves syndrome: MR imaging of a postmastectomy upper-limb chronic lymphedema with angiosarcoma

Skeletal Radiology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 156-160

  Schindera, Sebastian T ^a   Streit, M ^a   Kaelin, U ^a   Stauffer, E ^a   Steinbach, L ^b   Anderson, S E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiosarcoma; Chronic lymphedema; MR imaging; Stewart Treves syndrome; Upper extremity

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE MEGLUMINE;

AGED; ANGIOSARCOMA; ARM DISEASE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CELL DENSITY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE DISPLAY; LIMB SALVAGE; LYMPHEDEMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEWART TREVES SYNDROME; STROMA; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; VASCULAR FIBROSIS; VASCULAR TUMOR;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARM; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHANGIOSARCOMA; LYMPHEDEMA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MASTECTOMY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SYNDROME;

EID: 14544286565     PISSN: 03642348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00256-004-0807-5     Document Type: Article

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