Pelvic lymphedema: Truth or fiction?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 267-270

  Vannelli, Alberto ^a   Battaglia, Luigi ^a   Poiasina, Elia ^a   Leo, Ermanno ^a  

^a IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; FIBROSIS; HUMAN; LIPOHYPERTROPHY; LYMPH VESSEL; LYMPHADENECTOMY; LYMPHEDEMA; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PATHOGENESIS; PELVIC LYMPHEDEMA; PELVIS; PERINEUM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; LYMPHEDEMA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PELVIC NEOPLASMS; PELVIS;

EID: 59249091501     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2008.10.019     Document Type: Article

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