Conservative interventions for preventing clinically detectable upper-limb lymphoedema in patients who are at risk of developing lymphoedema after breast cancer therapy.

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  2015

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  Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

• Publication date

  2015-02-13

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  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1002/14651858.CD009765.pub2PMID 25677413PMCID PMC10651942
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