Surgical prevention of arm lymphedema after breast cancer treatment

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2500-2505

  Boccardo, Francesco M ^a   Casabona, Federico ^b   Friedman, Daniele ^a   Puglisi, Maria ^a   De Cian, Franco ^a   Ansaldi, Filippo ^b   Campisi, Corradino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPHEDEMA; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MICROSURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VEIN ANASTOMOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARM; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; LYMPHEDEMA; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 80052780482     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-011-1624-4     Document Type: Article

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