Reliability study of measurements for lymphedema in breast cancer patients

American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 33-38

  Chen, Yu Wei ^a   Tsai, Han Ju ^b   Hung, Hsiu Chuan ^a   Tsauo, Jau Yih ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Circumference Measurement; Lymphedema; Reliability; Tissue Tonometry; Water Displacement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; LIMB WATER DISPLACEMENT; LYMPHEDEMA; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TONOMETRY; VOLUMETRY;

AGED; ARM; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHEDEMA; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 37549003213     PISSN: 08949115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PHM.0b013e31815b6199     Document Type: Article

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