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Syndrome de Stewart-Treves: complication rare de lymphœdème chronique
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Several months after left radical mastectomy without irradiation therapy for breast cancer, a 74-year-old woman developed severe edema on the homolateral arm extending to the axilla. Ten years later, purplish to brownish blotch and nodules accompanied with heating sensation and pain appeared and increased in size gradually on the left forearm. The patient was treated by irradiation therapy unde...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Advances in Medicine
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2349-3925
DOI: 10.5455/2349-3933.ijam20141116