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The Lymphedema Center and Multidisciplinary Management

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Lymphedema

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Lymphedema is a poorly understood condition and few physicians specialize on the disease. Misdiagnosis and incorrect treatment are common. Patients should be managed by health care providers focused on their condition. Because lymphedema does not fit easily into a specific medical discipline, patients are best treated in a multidisciplinary Lymphedema Center.

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  1. Department of Plastic and Oral Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

    Arin K. Greene M.D., M.MSc.

  2. Division of Plastic Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Sumner A. Slavin M.D.

  3. Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

    Håkan Brorson M.D., Ph.D.

  4. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden

    Håkan Brorson M.D., Ph.D.

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Correspondence to Arin K. Greene M.D., M.MSc. .

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  1. Department of Plastic and Oral Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Arin K. Greene

  2. Division of Plastic Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA

    Sumner A. Slavin

  3. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden

    Håkan Brorson

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Greene, A.K., Slavin, S.A., Brorson, H. (2015). The Lymphedema Center and Multidisciplinary Management. In: Greene, A., Slavin, S., Brorson, H. (eds) Lymphedema. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14493-1_6

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