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The agreement between three classification systems used to grade the severity of lymphedema in patients with upper and lower extremity lymphedema: A retrospective study

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Pages 874-879 | Received 18 Sep 2022, Accepted 15 Dec 2022, Published online: 25 Dec 2022

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