Sympathetic nerve damage as a potential cause of lymphoedema after axillary dissection for breast cancer

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 96, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 865-869

  Bennett Britton, T M ^a   Wallace, S M L ^b   Wilkinson, I B ^b   Mortimer, P S ^c   Peters, A M ^d   Purushotham, A D ^a  

^a GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL SUSSEX COUNTY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARM; ARM EDEMA; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FOREARM BLOOD FLOW; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPHEDEMA; NERVE INJURY; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VEIN COMPLIANCE; WATER IMMERSION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHEDEMA; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; TRAUMA, NERVOUS SYSTEM; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 68049102208     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: 13652168     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.6660     Document Type: Article

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