ReviewSeminars in plastic surgery2018
Liposuction Treatment of Lymphedema.
Review in Seminars in plastic surgery, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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37 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 112 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pre- and Post-Microsurgical Rehabilitation Interventions and Outcomes on Breast Cancer-Related Lymphedema: a Systematic Review.Current oncology reports · 2023Pooled it
- A Practical Algorithm for Donor- and Recipient-site Selection in Vascularized Lymph Node Transfer in Extremity Lymphedema.Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open · 2026Article
- Lymphedema: current treatment strategies and future directions in tissue engineering.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Review
- Association of post-liposuction edema on body composition and weight reduction efficiency.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Lymphedema as a Meteoropathic Disease: A Preliminary Single-center Retrospective Study.Journal of plastic and reconstructive surgery · 2025Article
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- Enhancing outcomes in severe lymphedema through combined treatment strategies.World journal of clinical cases · 2025Article
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- [Research progress in surgical techniques for treatment of limb lymphedema].Zhongguo xiu fu chong jian wai ke za zhi = Zhongguo xiufu chongjian waike zazhi = Chinese journal of reparative and reconstructive surgery · 2025Review
- The prognostic effect and mechanism of erysipelas in cancer-associated lymphedema.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Integrated surgical treatment: a new model for treating secondary extremity lymphedema based on algorithms.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Review
- [Cost comparison of conservative vs. surgical treatment of chronic lymphedema].Chirurgie (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Etiology and treatment of cancer-related secondary lymphedema.Clinical & experimental metastasis · 2024Review
- Surgical management of lymphedema: prophylactic and therapeutic operations.Current breast cancer reports · 2024Article
- A new lymphedema treatment using pyro-drive jet injection.Human cell · 2024Article
- Demystifying vascularized lymph node transfers and lymphatico-venous anastomoses.Annals of translational medicine · 2024Review
- Surgical treatment of breast cancer related lymphedema-the combined approach: a literature review.Gland surgery · 2023Review
- Advances in the prevention and treatment of breast cancer-related lymphedema.Breast cancer research and treatment · 2023Review
- Reconstructive Surgery for the Neglected Tropical Diseases: Global Gaps and Future Directions.Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open · 2023Article
- Lymphological Liposculpture for Secondary Lymphedema after Breast Cancer and Gynecological Tumors: Long-Term Results after 15 Years.Archives of plastic surgery · 2023Article
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Abstract
In the Western world, lymphedema most commonly occurs following treatment of cancer. Limb reductions have been reported utilizing various conservative therapies including manual lymph and pressure therapy, as well as by microsurgical reconstruction involving lymphovenous shunts and transplantation of lymph vessels or nodes. Failure of these conservative and surgical treatments to provide complete reduction in patients with long-standing pronounced lymphedema is due to the persistence of excess newly formed subcutaneous adipose tissue in response to slow or absent lymph flow, which is not removed in patients with chronic non-pitting lymphedema. Traditional surgical regimes utilizing bridging procedures, total excision with skin grafting, or reduction plasty seldom achieved acceptable cosmetic and functional results. Liposuction removes the hypertrophied adipose tissue and is a prerequisite to achieve complete reduction, and this reduction is maintained long-term through constant (24 h) use of compression garments postoperatively. This article describes the techniques and evidence basis for the use of liposuction for treatment of lymphedema.
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