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- Title
Surgical treatment of recidivist lymphedema.
- Authors
Eretta, Costantino; Ferrarese, Alessia; Moggia, Elisabetta; Francone, Elisa; Sagnelli, Carlo; Di Martino, Maria; de Franciscis, Stefano; Amato, Bruno; Grande, Raffaele; Butrico, Lucia; Amato, Maurizio; Serra, Raffaele; Martino, Valter; Berti, Stefano
- Abstract
Lymphedema is a chronic disease with a progressively ingravescent evolvement and an appearance of recurrent complications of acute lymphangitic type; in nature it is mostly erysipeloid and responsible for a further rapid increase in the volume and consistency of edema. The purpose of this work is to present our experience in the minimally invasive treatment for recurrence of lymphedema; adapting techniques performed in the past which included large fasciotomy with devastating results cosmetically; but these techniques have been proposed again by the use of endoscopic equipment borrowed from the advanced laparoscopy surgery, which allows a monoskin access of about one cm.
- Publication
Open Medicine, 2016, Vol 11, Issue 1, p121
- ISSN
2391-5463
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/med-2016-0023