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. 2020 Sep 15;100(12):2186–2197. doi: 10.1093/ptj/pzaa162

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Temporal relationship between patient-reported change in arm size at varying edema levels and onset of BCRL. (a) Of the 64 patients who developed BCRL (RVC ≥ 10%), 37 (58%) initially reported an increase in arm size a median of 6.1 months before BCRL onset (range 68.6 months before to 50.2 months after BCRL onset). Red dots prior to time 0 indicate a report of change in arm size at an RVC ≥ 10% within 3 months postoperatively. (b) Of the 254 patients who developed RVC ≥ 5% (39.3% of the cohort), the median time to report an increased arm size was at the date of development of RVC ≥ 5% (range 68.8 months before to 51.1 months after onset of RVC ≥ 5%). Red and blue dots prior to time 0 indicate a report of change in arm size at RVC ≥ 10% and RVC ≥ 5%, respectively, within 3 months postoperatively.