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. 2024 Jul 2;16(13):2435.
doi: 10.3390/cancers16132435.

Reply to Bourgeois, P. Comment on "Devoogdt et al. The Effectiveness of Fluoroscopy-Guided Manual Lymph Drainage as Part of Decongestive Lymphatic Therapy on the Superficial Lymphatic Architecture in Patients with Breast Cancer-Related Lymphoedema: A Randomised Controlled Trial. Cancers 2023, 15, 1545"

Wiebren A A Tjalma  1   2 , Jean-Paul Belgrado  3 , Sarah Thomis  4   5 , Ines Nevelsteen  6 , Nick Gebruers  1   7 , Chris Monten  8 , Marianne Hanssens  9 , Tessa De Vrieze  7   10 , Nele Devoogdt  4   10
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Reply to Bourgeois, P. Comment on "Devoogdt et al. The Effectiveness of Fluoroscopy-Guided Manual Lymph Drainage as Part of Decongestive Lymphatic Therapy on the Superficial Lymphatic Architecture in Patients with Breast Cancer-Related Lymphoedema: A Randomised Controlled Trial. Cancers 2023, 15, 1545"

Wiebren A A Tjalma et al. Cancers (Basel). .

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We appreciate the commentary by Pierre Bourgeois [...].

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