Estimating the population burden of lymphedema

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1131, Issue , 2008, Pages 147-154

  Rockson, Stanley G ^a   Rivera, Kahealani K ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer related lymphedema; Lymphedema epidemiology; Tissue edema; Trauma related lymphedema

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EDEMA; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INCIDENCE; INFECTION; LYMPHEDEMA; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM; PENIS CANCER; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PROSTATE CANCER; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; STATISTICS; URINARY TRACT CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VULVA CANCER;

EID: 44449169320     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1413.014     Document Type: Conference Paper

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