Defining a threshold for intervention in breast cancer-related lymphedema: what level of arm volume increase predicts progression?

Breast cancer research and treatment

Volumn 140, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 485-494

  Specht, Michelle C ^a   Miller, Cynthia L ^b   Russell, Tara A ^b   Horick, Nora ^b   Skolny, Melissa N ^b   O'Toole, Jean A ^b   Jammallo, Lauren S ^b   Niemierko, Andrzej ^b   Sadek, Betro T ^b   Shenouda, Mina N ^b   Finkelstein, Dianne M ^b   Smith, Barbara L ^b   Taghian, Alphonse G ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARM; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPHEDEMA; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARM; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHEDEMA; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84898704076     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15737217     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10549-013-2655-2     Document Type: Article

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