Intestinal polypoid lymphangiectasia is an uncommon disorder involving improperly formed enteric lymphatic system. It characterized by vessel dilatation with impaired drainage or obstruction of the lymph from intestine. In this report, we present a case 73-year-old male patient chronic intermittent left lower quadrant abdominal pain for one year who was found to have sigmoid colon polyp on colo...

Although glomerular damage plays a well-established and important role in the pathomechanism of diabetic nephropathy, it alone does not fully explain the progression of renal complications in long-term diabetes mellitus. We discuss experimental evidence showing involvement of the postglomerular microvessels (peritubular capillaries and venules) in diabetic microangiopathy. This involvement is m...

According to axilla sentinel lymph node lymphatic drainage pattern, we hypothesized that internal mammary sentinel lymph node (IM-SLN) receives lymphatic drainage from not only the primary tumor area, but also the entire breast parenchyma. Based on the hypothesis a modified radiotracer injection technique was established and could increase the visualization rate of the IM-SLN significantly. To ...

Background: One of the most important issues in the treatment of autoimmune thyroid diseases is the choice of tactics of the physician in relation to high levels of antithyroid antibodies. Do they actively eliminate them from the body or not? We belong to the group of researchers who believe that the antithyroid antibody titer has a significant effect on the activity of the autoimmune process a...

BACKGROUND Results of a dynamic multimodality mapping study showed no lymphatic drainage of the lateral bladder wall to the contralateral internal iliac region. OBJECTIVES To validate whether pathoanatomical mapping in bladder cancer (BC) patients can confirm these results. METHODS Between 01/2000 and 07/2013, 825 BC patients preoperatively staged ≥pT1 and without clinical signs of metastas...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the results of combined decongestive therapy and manual lymphatic drainage in patients with breast cancer-related lymphedema. METHODS AND MATERIALS The data from 250 patients were reviewed. The pre- and posttreatment volumetric measurements were compared, and the correlation with age, body mass index, and type of surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy was determined. Th...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Secondary lymphoedema is considered one of the most common complications after breast cancer surgery. The aim of the present study was to analyze the effectiveness of containment elastic orthosis and manual lymphatic drainage in the prevention of lymphoedema secondary to mastectomy. PATIENTS AND METHOD An experimental study was performed with a control group. Forty-ei...

University of Vienna, Austria Conservative treatment of lymphoedema is based on decongestive lymphatic therapy (DLT) which consists of compression, manual lymphatic drainage (MLD), skin care and exercise. Some schools use the term complete decongestive physiotherapy (CDP) (Foeldi et al, 2003). The most important single component among these modalities is compression, for which several devices a...