Lymphoedema and reduced shoulder function as indicators of quality of life after axillary lymph node dissection for invasive breast cancer
Open Access
- 8 January 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in British Journal of Surgery
- Vol. 90 (1), 76-81
- https://doi.org/10.1002/bjs.4010
Abstract
Only identifies a proportion of the women with affected quality of lifeKeywords
Funding Information
- Scientific Fund of the Catharina Hospital Eindhoven
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