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SynthesisThe Cochrane database of systematic reviews2025

Microsurgical versus complex physical decongestive therapy for chronic breast cancer-related lymphoedema.

Yvonne Haas, Olivia P Williams, Jaume Masia, Gemma Pons, Erin M Taylor, Maria C Katapodi, Daniel Staub, Steffen U Eisenhardt, Giuseppe Visconti, Benedetto Longo and 25 more

Abstract readSystematic Review
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In one paragraph

Synthesis in The Cochrane database of systematic reviews, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

35 authors.

Yvonne HaasDepartment of Plastic, Reconstructive, Aesthetic and Hand Surgery, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Olivia P WilliamsUniversity of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Jaume MasiaDepartment of Plastic Surgery, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Gemma PonsDepartment of Plastic Surgery, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Erin M TaylorDivision of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachussetts, USA.
Maria C KatapodiDepartment of Clinical Research, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Daniel StaubDepartment of Angiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Steffen U EisenhardtDepartment of Plastic and Hand Surgery, University of Freiburg Medical Center, Medical Faculty of the University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
Giuseppe ViscontiDepartment of Woman and Child Health and Public Health, Division of Plastic Surgery, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "A Gemelli" IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
Benedetto LongoDepartment of surgical sciences - Division of Plastic Surgery, Tor Vergata University Hospital, Rome, Italy.
Jan PlockDepartment of Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery, Cantonal Hospital Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland.
Florian JungDepartment of Plastic and Hand Surgery, Cantonal Hospital of Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland.
Eduardo GonzalezDivision of Oncoplastic Surgery, Oncologic Institute Instituto de Oncología Ángel H Roffo, Buenos Aires British Hospital, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Benedict KaiserDepartment of Plastic, Reconstructive, Aesthetic and Hand Surgery, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Lea ZehnpfennigUniversity of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.
Julia StoffelDepartment of Plastic, Reconstructive, Aesthetic and Hand Surgery, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Florian S HalbeisenSurgical Outcome Research Center, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Christian Appenzeller-HerzogUniversity Medical Library, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Laura Hilbig-VlattenAlbert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
Yvette StoelInstitute of Therapies and Rehabilitation, Division of Physiotherapy, Cantonal Hospital of Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland.
Raymund E HorchDepartment of Plastic and Hand Surgery, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany.
Maria ManiDepartment of Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden.
Karin RibiQuality of Life Office, International Breast Cancer Study Group, a division of ETOP IBCSG Partners Foundation, Bern, Careum School of Health, part of the Kalaidos University of Applied Sciences, Zürich, Switzerland.
Joshua VorstenboschDepartment of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Kathryn V IsaacDivision of Plastic Surgery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Shan Shan QiuDepartment of Plastic, Reconstructive and Hand Surgery, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, Netherlands.
Björn BehrDepartment of Plastic,- Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Kliniken Essen-Mitte (KEM), Essen, Germany.
Lars G HemkensDepartment of Clinical Research, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Nicole LindenblattDepartment of Plastic and Hand Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Dirk J SchaeferDepartment of Plastic, Reconstructive, Aesthetic and Hand Surgery, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Katrin SeidenstueckerDepartment of Plastic Surgery, Sana Hospitals Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Yves HarderDepartment of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery and Hand Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland.
Christoph R HircheDepartment of Plastic Surgery, Hand and Reconstructive Microsurgery, Hand Trauma and Replantation Centre, BG Unfallklinik Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt, Germany.
Walter P WeberUniversity of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Elisabeth A KapposDepartment of Plastic, Reconstructive, Aesthetic and Hand Surgery, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesThis is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (intervention). The objectives are as follows: To assess the effects of microsurgery versus complex physical decongestive therapy in people with chronic breast cancer-related lymphoedema.

Indexed as

Breast Cancer LymphedemaMicrosurgeryPhysical Therapy ModalitiesChronic DiseaseCompression BandagesControlled Clinical Trials as TopicFemaleHumansLipectomyQuality of LifeSkin CareSystematic Reviews as TopicTreatment Outcome

Identifiers

PMID39945379
PMCPMC11822882

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