Enhancing lymphoscintigraphic specificity of lymphoedema diagnosis in patients with lipoedema.

This study addresses the diagnostic challenges of identifying lymphoedema in patients with lipoedema using lymphoscintigraphy. Overdiagnosis of lymphoedema in this patient population is frequent and may result in reduced proposed surgical interventions. We retrospectively analyzed clinical data from patients followed for lipoedema, lymphoedema or lipolymphoedema and who underwent lymphoscintigraphy.

Diagnostic imaging in lipedema: A systematic review.

Background: Diagnosing lipedema remains a challenge due to its heterogeneous presentation, co-existing diseases, and the lack of objective diagnostic imaging.

Objective: This systematic review aims to outline the currently available diagnostic imaging methods to characterize lipedema in the legs along with their diagnostic performance.

Methods: PubMed, Embase, Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science were searched.

Lipedema: What we don't know.

Background: Lipedema is a loose connective tissue disease characterized by a disproportionate accumulation of adipose tissue in the limbs of women. Despite its incidence of 10-20%, lipedema is often underdiagnosed and misdiagnosed.

Objectives: This review aims to outline current, available evidence regarding this enigmatic syndrome and gives a synopsis of the subjects that are still unknown.

[Treatment of pseudogynecomastia in massive weight loss patients: Liposuction assisted and made-to-measure desepidermization technique].

Background: After massive weight loss (MWL), the chest in men may show significant deformities. The surgical treatment of gynecomastia after MWL remains a difficult and partially misunderstood surgery due to 4 main factors: a complex excess of skin in height and width that sometimes continues in the axilla or dorsal region, a predominantly fatty rather than glandular component, the malposition of the nipple-areola complex (NAC) that is often enlarged and an inframammary fold (IMF) that is often marked. The techniques currently described are either insufficient or lead to frequent and/or significant complications.

Oncologic Safety of Immediate Breast Reconstruction: A Single-Center Retrospective Review of 138 Patients.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess the oncologic safety of mastectomies associated with immediate breast reconstruction (IBR) in terms of recurrence and survival.

Methods: A retrospective review was conducted at a single center (CHU UCL Namur, Belgium). We analyzed the oncologic safety of IBR for patients with invasive and in situ breast cancer who underwent mastectomy associated with IBR.