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✍ C. Campisi; D. Davini; C. Bellini; G. Taddei; G. Villa; E. Fulcheri; A. Zilli; E 📂 Article 📅 2006 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 186 KB

## Abstract The secondary lymphedema of the upper limb (post‐mastectomy lymphedema) has an incidence, in patients who underwent axillary lymphadenectomy for breast cancer, between 5 to 25%, up to 40% after radiotherapic treatment. We studied 50 patients treated for breast cancer. The patients were