Systematic review: Conservative treatments for secondary lymphedema

BMC Cancer

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Oremus, Mark ^a   Dayes, Ian ^a   Walker, Kathryn ^a   Raina, Parminder ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CHRONICITY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DATA ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LYMPHEDEMA; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; BANDAGE; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); FEMALE; KINESIOTHERAPY; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW;

BANDAGES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHEDEMA; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84855290527     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-12-6     Document Type: Article

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