Functional Lymphatic Alterations in Patients Suffering from Lipedema

1 April 1995

journal article
Published by SAGE Publications in Angiology

Vol. 46 (4), 333-339
https://doi.org/10.1177/000331979504600408

Abstract

Lipedema is a chronic vascular disease almost exclusively of female sex, characterized by the deposit of fat on the legs, with an "Egyptian column" shape, orthostatic edema, hypothermia of the skin, alteration of the plantar support, and negativity of Stemmer's sign.

Keywords

FUNCTIONAL
LEGS
EDEMA
VASCULAR
ORTHOSTATIC
SIGN
EGYPTIAN
LYMPHATIC ALTERATIONS
STEMMER'S

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