Managing postmastectomy lymphedema with low-level laser therapy

Photomedicine and Laser Surgery

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 763-769

  Lau, Rufina W L ^a   Cheing, Gladys L Y ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEFORE AND AFTER; BREAST CANCER TREATMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROL GROUPS; GROUP DIFFERENCES; LASER IRRADIATIONS; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; LYMPHEDEMA; SUBJECTIVE SYMPTOMS; TISSUE RESISTANCE; VOLUMETRY;

LASER SURGERY; LASER TISSUE INTERACTION; NUMERICAL METHODS;

LASERS;

ADULT; ARM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISABILITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOREARM; HUMAN; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; LYMPHEDEMA; MASTECTOMY; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TISSUE REACTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRUNK;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY, LOW-LEVEL; LYMPHEDEMA; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70449090570     PISSN: 15495418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/pho.2008.2330     Document Type: Article

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