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Blue angioedema of eyelip after patent blue injection for lymphatic mapping procedure
Author(s) -
WENG P.W.,
HSU H.M.,
CHEN T.W.,
HSIEH C.B.,
CHANG T.M.,
CHEN V.T.K.,
YU J.C.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
european journal of cancer care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.849
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1365-2354
pISSN - 0961-5423
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2354.2007.00807.x
Subject(s) - medicine , angioedema , sentinel node , lymphatic system , biopsy , surgery , complication , breast cancer , blue light , dermatology , radiology , cancer , pathology , optoelectronics , physics
Sentinel node biopsy using patent blue dye in breast cancer is a well‐documented procedure to assess the axillary status. We presented an unusual and previously unreported complication of simple blue angioedema over bilaterally periorbital tissue after blue dye injection.