The incidence and risk factors for occurrence of arm lymphedema after treatment of breast cancer

Chirurgia (Romania)

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 33-37

  Rebegea, Laura Florentina ^a,b   Firescu, D ^a,b   Dumitru, M ^a   Anghel, R ^c  

^a Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery   (Romania)

^b DUNAREA DE JOS UNIVERSITY OF GALATI   (Romania)

^c Institutul Oncologic Prof Dr Alexandru Trestioreanu Bucuresti   (Romania)

Author keywords

Arm lymphedema; Breast neoplasm; Radiotherapy; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; ARM; BODY MASS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CANCER STAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPHEDEMA; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PATHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; ROMANIA; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARM; BODY MASS INDEX; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHEDEMA; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; OBESITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; ROMANIA; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84930016119     PISSN: 12219118     EISSN: 1842368X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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