TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - LIPOLYMPHEDEMA A1 - Fife, Caroline E. A1 - Carter, Marissa J. A2 - Dean, Steven M. A2 - Satiani, Bhagwan A2 - Abraham, William T. PY - 2015 T2 - Color Atlas and Synopsis of Vascular Diseases AB - A 44-year-old Caucasian woman with type I diabetes presented with massive localized lymphedema (MLL), a phenotype of lymphedema. She had been overweight most of her adult life, with most of her body weight being disproportionally distributed in her lower body. However, actual leg swelling had begun about 10 years ago. She was either scratched or bitten on the left calf and developed cellulitis with sepsis. The left leg edema continued to worsen even after the cellulitis resolved until it was profoundly enlarged, and gradually the right leg began to enlarge as well. The pendulous enlargements at the back of both thighs began slowly and continued to increase over the years until they began to affect her ability to walk. She had undergone a lap band for morbid obesity 2 years ago and had lost more than 45 kg, but this had little effect on her leg enlargement. Compression stockings would not fit. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Medical CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accesscardiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1105292080 ER -