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A 61-year-old woman with chronic leg lymphedema managed with complete decongestive therapy
- Source :
- CMAJ
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- CMA Impact Inc., 2020.
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Abstract
- KEY POINTS A 61-year-old woman presented to her family physician’s office with long-standing bilateral leg swelling. She voiced that her legs had become “heavy” and that the skin was “thick” and “burning.” She had started using a cane for gait instability. An insidious onset of
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Gait instability
Leg swelling
030207 dermatology & venereal diseases
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Humans
Medicine
Lymphedema
Physical Therapy Modalities
Leg
Practice
business.industry
Lymphography
General Medicine
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Insidious onset
Chronic disease
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Chronic Disease
Physical therapy
Drainage
Female
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14882329 and 08203946
- Volume :
- 192
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Canadian Medical Association Journal
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....bb9db5de9db84accdbdf0a90683e5ff3