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Why and How Post-Mastectomy Edema should be Quantified in Patients with Breast Cancer

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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

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

    Christophe Galland, Jean François Auvert, Antoine Flahault & Michel Vayssairat

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Galland, C., Auvert, J.F., Flahault, A. et al. Why and How Post-Mastectomy Edema should be Quantified in Patients with Breast Cancer. Breast Cancer Res Treat 75, 87–89 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1016522319282

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