Case-control study to evaluate predictors of lymphedema after breast cancer surgery

Oncology Nursing Forum

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 185-193

  Swenson, Karen K ^a   Nissen, Mary Jo ^a   Leach, Joseph W ^a   Post White, Janice ^b  

^a Park Nicollet Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LYMPHADENECTOMY; LYMPHEDEMA; MASTECTOMY; METHODOLOGY; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHEDEMA; MASTECTOMY; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; MINNESOTA; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 67649170586     PISSN: 0190535X     EISSN: 15380688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1188/09.ONF.185-193     Document Type: Article

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