Postirradiation morphea in a breast cancer patient

Breast Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 173-176

  Dubner, Steve ^a   Bovi, Joseph ^a   White, Julia ^a   Susnik, Barbara ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Morphea; Radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSARCOMA; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SCREENING; CARCINOMA IN SITU; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MORPHEA; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; RADIATION DOSE; ADJUVANT THERAPY; BREAST TUMOR; CASE REPORT; LOCALIZED SCLERODERMA; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION INJURY; SEGMENTAL MASTECTOMY; SKIN PIGMENTATION; TIME;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SCLERODERMA, LOCALIZED; SKIN PIGMENTATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33645454845     PISSN: 1075122X     EISSN: 15244741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1075-122X.2006.00229.x     Document Type: Article

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