Validity for the Simplified Water Displacement Instrument to Measure Arm Lymphedema as a Result of Breast Cancer Surgery

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 803-809

  Sagen, Åse ^a   Kåresen, Rolf ^a   Skaane, Per ^a   Risberg, May Arna ^a  

^a ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Breast neoplasms; Cancer; Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARM DISEASE; ARM LYMPHEDEMA; ARM VOLUME; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MUSCLE TISSUE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAMETER; SCORING SYSTEM; SIMPLIFIED WATER DISPLACEMENT INSTRUMENT; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARM; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHEDEMA; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 65249153024     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2008.11.016     Document Type: Article

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