Comparing two treatment methods for post mastectomy lymphedema: Complex decongestive therapy alone and in combination with intermittent pneumatic compression

Lymphology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 25-33

  Haghighat, Shahpar ^a   Lotfi Tokaldany, M ^a   Yunesian, M ^b   Akbari, M E ^a   Nazemi, F ^a   Weiss, J ^c  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Complex decongestive therapy; Intermittent pneumatic compression; Iran; Lymphedema

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM EDEMA; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLEX DECONGESTIVE THERAPY; COMPRESSION THERAPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERMITTENT PNEUMATIC COMPRESSION; LYMPHEDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; MODIFIED COMPLEX DECONGESTIVE THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VOLUMETRY;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHEDEMA; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 77952350847     PISSN: 00247766     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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