From furuncle to axillary web syndrome: Shedding light on histopathology and pathogenesis

Dermatology

Volumn 224, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 110-114

  Rashtak, Shadi ^a   Gamble, Gail L ^b   Gibson, Lawrence E ^a   Pittelkow, Mark R ^a  

^a Mayo Clinic College of Medicine   (United States)

^b REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Axillary web syndrome; Furuncle; Nodules

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; INFLIXIMAB; METHOTREXATE;

ADULT; ARM; AXILLA; AXILLARY WEB SYNDROME; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EOSINOPHILIC FASCIITIS; FEMALE; FURUNCULOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPHANGITIS; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MORPHEA; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PATHOGENESIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUVA; REVIEW; SKIN NODULE; SUPERFICIAL THROMBOPHLEBITIS; SYNDROME;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ARM; DOXYCYCLINE; FEMALE; FURUNCULOSIS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84861914264     PISSN: 10188665     EISSN: 14219832     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000337210     Document Type: Review

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