Treatment of various secondary lymphedemas by microsurgical lymph vessel transplantation

Microsurgery

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 171-177

  Felmerer, Gunther ^a,c   Sattler, Thorsten ^b   Lohrmann, Christian ^c   Tobbia, Dalia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b KLINIKUM KASSEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; GADOTERIDOL;

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS; ARM EDEMA; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CELLULITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPRESSION GARMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONVALESCENCE; FACE EDEMA; FEMALE; GENITAL EDEMA; HUMAN; LEG EDEMA; LYMPH VESSEL GRAFT; LYMPHADENECTOMY; LYMPHANGIOGRAPHY; LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE; LYMPHEDEMA; MALE; MICROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VASCULAR PATENCY;

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC VESSELS; LYMPHEDEMA; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84859110098     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: 10982752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.20968     Document Type: Conference Paper

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