Bibliographic citations
Sánchez, G., (2015). Efectividad del drenaje linfático manual en linfedema post linfadenectomía por cáncer de mama unilateral. Unidad funcional de rehabilitación oncológica del departamento de medicina física del Hospital nacional Edgardo Rebagliati Martins [Tesis, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos]. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12672/4291
Sánchez, G., Efectividad del drenaje linfático manual en linfedema post linfadenectomía por cáncer de mama unilateral. Unidad funcional de rehabilitación oncológica del departamento de medicina física del Hospital nacional Edgardo Rebagliati Martins [Tesis]. PE: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos; 2015. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12672/4291
@misc{renati/488223,
title = "Efectividad del drenaje linfático manual en linfedema post linfadenectomía por cáncer de mama unilateral. Unidad funcional de rehabilitación oncológica del departamento de medicina física del Hospital nacional Edgardo Rebagliati Martins",
author = "Sánchez Céspedes, Gustavo Alonso",
publisher = "Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos",
year = "2015"
}
OBJECTIVES: To determine the effectiveness of manual lymphatic drainage in women with lymphedema of the upper limb post axillary lymphadenectomy for breast cancer of the Unidad Funcional de Rehabilitación Oncológicas del Departamento de Medicina Física del Hospital Nacional Edgardo Rebagliati Martins, for the year 2015; via the percentage reduction of the averages circometricos spreads, the improvement and/or maintenance of the differences circometricas per segment and in comparison to the therapy of cold compresses together to linfokinesicos exercises. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A Study of quantitative, analytical, quasi-experimental prospective study; we studied 28 women with lymphedema of the upper limb post axillary lymphadenectomy for breast cancer of grade I in stage II, with a time of disease between 1 year and 6 months and 2 years, of which in the process are removed 6. Are intercepted in 12 sessions of engaging form (3 times per week) with duration of 45 minutes on the therapy. It is distributed in 2 study groups, one with 12 experimental patients for physiotherapeutic treatment only with manual lymphatic drainage and other control of 10 patients treated with cold compresses and a program of exercises linfokinesicos; used as a tool for evaluating the circometria. RESULTS: corroborates the effectiveness of the method of manual lymph drainage with a significant difference p < 0.05, according to the Wilcoxon test. There is improvement in the perimeters of the upper limb affection to armpit level, arm (proximal and distal), forearm (proximal and distal) and fingers (proximal interphalangeal). CONCLUSIONS: Is then determined that the manual lymphatic drainage if it is effective for improving and/or maintenance of lymphedema of the upper limb post lymphadenectomy for breast cancer, with improvement rates of 60% and 40% with fair rating and good respectively. And that compared with the use of cold compresses along with an exercise program is not statistically significant (p>0.05) for improvement and/or maintenance of the average member of the upper differential affection, but if there is any difference descriptive where the average is at the end of 1.039 ± 0.94 cm for experimental group, which is less than the average end of the control group remained east of 1.307 cm ± 0.78. KEY WORDS: manual lymphatic drainage, lymphedema of the upper limb, lymphadenectomy, breast cancer
This item is licensed under a Creative Commons License