Postmastectomy Edema and Recurrent Cellulitis: Prevention and Treatment

1 November 1986

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Vascular Surgery

Vol. 20 (6) , 368-386
https://doi.org/10.1177/153857448602000604

Abstract

Edema of the arm with associated recurrent bouts of cellulitis, occurring immediately or as late as twenty years after treatment of breast cancer, has been a very common and major complication since the initiation of surgical treat ment of breast cancer. We now know the cause and have developed methods to prevent and treat the complication.

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