Towards an effective management of chronic lymphedema

Clinics in Dermatology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 685-691

  Szolnoky, Gyozo ^a   Dobozy, Attila ^a   Kemény, Lajos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; COUMARIN; DIURETIC AGENT;

BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CELLULITIS; COMPRESSION BANDAGE; COMPRESSION STOCKING; COMPRESSION THERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CYTOREDUCTIVE SURGERY; DECONGESTIVE LYMPHATIC THERAPY; ERYSIPELAS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INTERMITTENT PNEUMATIC COMPRESSION; KINESIOTHERAPY; LIPOSUCTION; LYMPH NODE TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPH VESSEL GRAFT; LYMPHANGITIS; LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE; LYMPHEDEMA; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; LYMPHOVENOUS ANASTOMOSIS; MULTICOMPONENT DECONGESTIVE PHYSIOTHERAPY; MUSCLE FLAP; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SKIN CARE; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; WEIGHT REDUCTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; LYMPHEDEMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84906335293     PISSN: 0738081X     EISSN: 18791131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clindermatol.2014.04.017     Document Type: Note

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