Postirradiation morphea: an underrecognized complication of treatment for breast cancer

Human Pathology

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1680-1688

  Walsh, Noreen ^a   Rheaume, Dorianne ^a   Barnes, Penelope ^a   Tremaine, Robert ^a   Reardon, Michael ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cutaneous complications of irradiation for breast cancer; Localized scleroderma after radiotherapy; Postirradiation morphea

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LICHEN SCLEROSUS ET ATROPHICUS; LOCALIZED SCLERODERMA; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MASTECTOMY; MORPHEA; PATHOGENESIS;

AGED; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HUMANS; LICHEN SCLEROSUS ET ATROPHICUS; MIDDLE AGED; RADIODERMATITIS; RADIOTHERAPY; SCLERODERMA, LOCALIZED;

EID: 53849126816     PISSN: 00468177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humpath.2008.04.010     Document Type: Article

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