Surgical Treatment Of LymphedemaA comprehensive overview of lymphedema covering subjects as symptoms, diagnostics, research, causes and pictures |
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Surgical treatment of LymphedemaSurgical treatment of Lymphedema is one of the options of treating Lymphedema. Several surgical methods have been used over the past years for the treatment of Lymphedema. The following methods of surgeries have been used during the past years:
Other ways have also been in simpler terms, like building a bridge in the affected area by surgery to make the fluid pass easily or by surgically removing the extra lymph filled areas. Lymphedema surgeries include two main ways of making the problem lessen out.
The Kondolean Procedure The Kondolean procedure of surgical treatment of Lymphedema is that the doctors create or establish a communication between the superficial and the deep lymph muscles so that the swelling or scars do not occur. The Charles Procedure In this procedure skin grafting is done on the muscle that is affected but this procedure is no longer used due to an error that has been written down in the papers mistakenly. The Sistrunk procedure (1918) In this procedure the affected areas are covered by skin flaps but this procedure has also been stopped using since a very long time. The Homans-Miller procedure (1936) This method is some what like the Sistrunk method but in this method the skin is covered by two type of flaps. The anterior flaps or the posterior flaps; the flaps are raised to about 1cm high through which the tissue can be exercised down to muscle fascia. Miller/Sistrunk staged excision operation This procedure is a mixture of the Charles and Miller ways of surgeries through which good results can be achieved. The Thompson Procedure A deepithelialized dermal flap is buried deep into the system surgically which helps in solving the problem. Several issues and questions are related to all kind of surgeries and so are they related to the surgical treatment of Lymphedema. But it is one of the few ways of treating the problem. |
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