Incidence and risk factors of lower-extremity lymphedema after radical surgery with or without adjuvant radiotherapy in patients with FIGO stage I to stage IIA cervical cancer

International Journal of Gynecological Cancer

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 686-691

  Kim, Jin Hwi ^a   Choi, Ji Hyang ^b   Ki, Eun Young ^a   Lee, Sung Jong ^a   Yoon, Joo Hee ^a   Lee, Keun Ho ^a   Park, Tae Chul ^a   Park, Jong Sup ^a   Bae, Seog Nyeon ^a   Hur, Soo Young ^a  

^a The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

^b Seoul Medical Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Incidence; Lymphedema; Risk factor

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CELLULITIS; COMPRESSION THERAPY; CYSTIC LYMPHANGIOMA; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INCIDENCE; LOWER EXTREMITY LYMPHEDEMA; LYMPHANGITIS; LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE; LYMPHEDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SKIN CARE; SURGERY; TREATMENT INDICATION; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; INCIDENCE; LOWER EXTREMITY; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; LYMPHEDEMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84863658503     PISSN: 1048891X     EISSN: 15251438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IGC.0b013e3182466950     Document Type: Review

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