Surgical management of giant scrotal lymphedema in morbidly obese patient with trisomy 21
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Surgical treatment in a case of giant scrotal lymphedema.
OBJECTIVE Scrotal lymphedema (SL) is a rare clinical pathology with multiple etiologies. We report a case of idiopathic giant scrotal lymphedema and review the existing medical literature in Medline from the last ten years. METHODS We report the case of a male patient with a giant scrotal lymphedema (43×40 cm) of unknown etiology developed over four years. RESULTS The patient was treated by...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Vascular Surgery Cases and Innovative Techniques
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2468-4287
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvscit.2019.02.002