Lipedema: an overview of its clinical manifestations, diagnosis and treatment of the disproportional fatty deposition syndrome - systematic review.
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...Decongestive lymphatic therapy including manual lymphatic drainage, physical exercise, multilayered and multicomponent compression bandaging and meticulous skin care is the standard conservative approach for lipedema treatment [5]....
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...8% of the patients in their unit with enlargement of the lower limbs between 2005 and 2012 [5]....
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...8% in their patients [1], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15], [16], [17]....
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...Concomitant severe venous insufficiency is rare; however, varicosity is often seen among lipedematous patients (19)....
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...These results suggest massive adipogenesis with concomitant hypoxia resulting in necrosis and macrophage recruitment (48)....
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...High-resolution cutaneous ultrasonography shows that in patients with lipedema, dermal thickness and echogenicity were normal, while increased dermal thickness and decreased echogenicity were associated with lymphedema (36)....
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...The sonography is sometimes superior to clinical examination and can be chosen as the second step in diagnosis of all non-systemic forms of edemas of the legs (36,37)....
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...Novel techniques as powerassisted liposuction with machine-powered 30–40 cm long and 3–4 mm wide metal cannulas oscillating in and out or vibrating fast using multiple insertions with limited amount of aspirated fat (53,55) or water jet-assisted liposuction have been shown to improve safety (57)....
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