Liposuction Treatment of Lymphedema
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Controlled compression and liposuction treatment for lower extremity lymphedema.
In 1987 we noticed excess adipose tissue in a patient with arm lymphedema and later, objective studies confirmed this clinical finding in patients with non-pitting arm lymphedema following breast cancer. A prospective study was begun in 1993, and its long-term results (15 years) shows overall complete reduction of the excess volume in patients with non-pitting arm lymphedema and that adipose ti...
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عنوان ژورنال: Seminars in Plastic Surgery
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1535-2188,1536-0067
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1635116