Clinical Challenges

Lower-Extremity Lymphedema in a Patient With Gynecologic Cancer

Kathleen Appollo

lymphedema, gynecologic malignancies
ONF 2007, 34(5), 937-940. DOI: 10.1188/07.ONF.937-940

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