Short-term effects of axillary lymph node clearance surgery on lymphatic physiology of the arm in breast cancer

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2345-2351

  Pain, Simon J ^a   Barber, Robert W ^a   Solanki, Chandra K ^a   Ballinger, James R ^a   Britton, Tom Bennett ^a   Mortimer, Peter S ^b   Purushotham, Anand D ^a   Peters, A Michael ^a,c  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

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

^c ROYAL SUSSEX COUNTY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

99mTc immunoglobulin; Proteolysis

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INDIUM 111; PERTECHNETIC ACID TC 99M; STANNOUS CHLORIDE; TAMOXIFEN; TECHNESCAN HIG; TRACER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CANCER RELATED LYMPHEDEMA; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISOTOPE LABELING; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; LYMPHEDEMA; MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

ADULT; AGED; ARM; AXILLA; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; LYMPHEDEMA; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 28044456502     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00372.2005     Document Type: Article

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