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Morbidity after conventional dissection of axillary lymph nodes in breast cancer patients

BACKGROUND: Conventional axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) has recently become less radical. The treatment morbidity effects of reduced ALND aggressiveness are unknown. This article investigates the prevalence of the main complications of ALND: lymphedema, range-of-motion restriction, and arm pa...

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Autores principales: Soares, Emerson Wander Silva, Nagai, Hildebrando Massahiro, Bredt, Luis César, da Cunha, Ademar Dantas, Andrade, Reginaldo José, Soares, Géser Vinícius Silva
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3986871/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24670000
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-12-67