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1: Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2002 Sep;75(1):87-9.Click here to read Links

Why and how post-mastectomy edema should be quantified in patients with breast cancer.

Galland C, Auvert JF, Flahault A, Vayssairat M.

Saint Antoine Faculty (Paris), Paris VI University, Tenon Hospital, Paris, France.

In the present study, we advocate quantifying post-mastectomy edema in patients with breast cancer in millilitres and not in centimetre, contrarily to the usual routine practice. The water displacement and perimetric quantification methods exhibited both excellent reproducibility with an intraclass correlation coefficient > 0.99 and an accuracy coefficient < 0.3%.

PMID: 12500937 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]