Lymphangiectasis of lower limb: A rare challenging case

Lymphangiectasis usually occurs in the viscera. Involvement of the lower limb is very rare. It is difficult to establish the diagnosis without detailed investigations. Clinical features are peculiar and may mimic lymphoedema of different origins which needs to be ruled out. Contrary to the expectati...

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Autores principales: Bhattacharya, Visweswar, Mishra, Biswajit, Barooah, Partha Sarathi, Chaudhuri, Gaurab Ranjan, Bhattacharya, Siddhartha
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2845375/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20368868
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-0358.59292
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author Bhattacharya, Visweswar
Mishra, Biswajit
Barooah, Partha Sarathi
Chaudhuri, Gaurab Ranjan
Bhattacharya, Siddhartha
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description Lymphangiectasis usually occurs in the viscera. Involvement of the lower limb is very rare. It is difficult to establish the diagnosis without detailed investigations. Clinical features are peculiar and may mimic lymphoedema of different origins which needs to be ruled out. Contrary to the expectation, the post-operative result is excellent in the long-term follow-up.
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spelling pubmed-28453752010-04-05 Lymphangiectasis of lower limb: A rare challenging case Bhattacharya, Visweswar Mishra, Biswajit Barooah, Partha Sarathi Chaudhuri, Gaurab Ranjan Bhattacharya, Siddhartha Indian J Plast Surg Case Report Lymphangiectasis usually occurs in the viscera. Involvement of the lower limb is very rare. It is difficult to establish the diagnosis without detailed investigations. Clinical features are peculiar and may mimic lymphoedema of different origins which needs to be ruled out. Contrary to the expectation, the post-operative result is excellent in the long-term follow-up. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2845375/ /pubmed/20368868 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-0358.59292 Text en © Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Bhattacharya, Visweswar
Mishra, Biswajit
Barooah, Partha Sarathi
Chaudhuri, Gaurab Ranjan
Bhattacharya, Siddhartha
Lymphangiectasis of lower limb: A rare challenging case
title Lymphangiectasis of lower limb: A rare challenging case
title_full Lymphangiectasis of lower limb: A rare challenging case
title_fullStr Lymphangiectasis of lower limb: A rare challenging case
title_full_unstemmed Lymphangiectasis of lower limb: A rare challenging case
title_short Lymphangiectasis of lower limb: A rare challenging case
title_sort lymphangiectasis of lower limb: a rare challenging case
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2845375/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20368868
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-0358.59292
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