L-Dex ratio in detecting breast cancer-related lymphedema: Reliability, sensitivity, and specificity

Lymphology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 85-96

  Fu, Mei R ^a   Cleland, C M ^a   Guth, A A ^b,c   Kayal, M ^d   Haber, J ^a   Cartwright, F ^c   Kleinman, R ^c   Kang, Y ^d   Scagliola, J ^c   Axelrod, D ^b,c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d NYU Langone Medical Center ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Bioimpedance; Breast cancer; Impedance; Impedance ratio; L Dex; Lymphedema

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; BIOELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE ANALYSIS; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVOR; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; L DEX RATIO; LIMB VOLUME; LYMPH; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPHEDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; ONCOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SELF REPORT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; ARM; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; IMPEDANCE; INTERVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ARM; BODY MASS INDEX; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LYMPHEDEMA; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84885740063     PISSN: 00247766     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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