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Juliet Jacobsen1, Craig D Blinderman
1Palliative Care Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA. jjacobsen@partners.org
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
|March 16, 2011
Abstract:
Subcutaneous lymphatic drainage has been reported to be an effective treatment for severe refractory lymphedema in patients with lymphatic accumulation because of obstructive cancer. We review published techniques for lymphatic drainage and describe two cases where these techniques were modified with good results.