A multicentre cross-sectional study of arm lymphedema four or more years after breast cancer treatment in Iranian patients

Breast Cancer

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 281-285

  Haddad, Peiman ^a   Farzin, Mostafa ^a   Amouzegar Hashemi, Farnaz ^a   Kalaghchi, Bita ^a   Babazadeh, Shadi ^b   Mirzaei, Hamid Reza ^c   Mousavizadeh, Ahmad ^c   Harirchi, Iraj ^a   Rafat, Jahangir ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Lymphedema

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; ARM SWELLING; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IRAN; LYMPHEDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION FIELD;

ADULT; AGED; ARM; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IRAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; LYMPHATIC IRRADIATION; LYMPHEDEMA; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RADIOTHERAPY; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77958081648     PISSN: 13406868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12282-009-0165-1     Document Type: Article

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