Impaired hemorheology in patients with postmastectomy lymphedema

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 283-288

  Djavanmard, Manuela P ^a   Michl, Ilse ^a   Korpan, M ^a   Fazeny, Barbara ^a   Budinsky, Alexandra C ^a   Wiesinger, Elmar ^a   Weinländer, Georg ^a   Binder, Michael ^a   Püspök, Margot ^a   Zielinski, Christoph C ^a   Fialka, Veronika ^a   Koppensteiner, Renate ^a   Marosi, Christine ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Postmastectomy lymphedema; Red cell aggregation; Rheology; Volumetry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; BREAST CANCER; CAPILLARY FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPHEDEMA; MASTECTOMY; PLASMA VISCOSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; ARM; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEMORHEOLOGY; HUMANS; LYMPHEDEMA; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 9244222679     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01806147     Document Type: Article

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