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Comment on “Linfotaping with kinesio® tape to manage and treat lymphedema patients: safety and tolerability are more important the efficacy?”

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  1. Master of Rehabilitation Sciences, Augusto Motta University Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Jacqueline de Carvalho Martins

  2. National Cancer Institute, Rua André Cavalcanti, 37/2o andar - Centro, Rio de Janeiro 20231-050, RJ, Brazil

    Suzana Sales de Aguiar, Luiz Claudio Santos Thuler & Anke Bergmann

  3. Physiotherapy Service, Cancer Hospital III, National Cancer Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Erica Alves Nogueira Fabro & Rejane Medeiros Costa

  4. Brasilia University, Physical Therapy School professor at Universidade de Goiás, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Thiago Vilela Lemos

  5. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Vinicius Gienbinsky Guapyassú de Sá & Raphael Mello de Abreu

  6. Medicine School, São Paulo University, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 20231-050, Brazil

    Mauro Figueiredo Carvalho de Andrade

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de Carvalho Martins, J., de Aguiar, S.S., Fabro, E.A.N. et al. Comment on “Linfotaping with kinesio® tape to manage and treat lymphedema patients: safety and tolerability are more important the efficacy?”. Support Care Cancer 24, 3281–3282 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-016-3266-3

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