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Surgical Treatment of Lymphedema of the Extremities (A Study on Lymphaticovenous Anastomosis in Comparison with the Method of Excision and Skin Graft)

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Recent Advances in Burns and Plastic Surgery — The Chinese Experience

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Abstract

Lymphedema of the extremity is a chronic and obstinate disease which causes much distress to the patient. In the past 50 years various methods of surgical treatment have been tried, but none of them is satisfactory. However, the method of excising diseased tissues and skin graft has still been widely accepted. Under the influence of the development of microsurgery in recent years, lymphaticovenous anastomosis (LYA) in an attempt to bypass lymphatic blockage has been employed. This operation seems to be a more rational method for the reestablishment of lymphatic drainage.1

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  1. Division of Microsurgery, First Affiliated Hospital, Zhongshan Medical College, China

    Guo-Zhong Yu, Jia-Kai Zhu, Shui-Fa Pang & Jun-Chi Liu

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Tisheng Chang M.D. Jixiang Shi M.D. Zhijun Yang M.D.

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Yu, GZ., Zhu, JK., Pang, SF., Liu, JC. (1985). Surgical Treatment of Lymphedema of the Extremities (A Study on Lymphaticovenous Anastomosis in Comparison with the Method of Excision and Skin Graft). In: Chang, T., Shi, J., Yang, Z. (eds) Recent Advances in Burns and Plastic Surgery — The Chinese Experience. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4900-3_21

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