ZILLI A.

The Authors report an overview upon the modern surgical treatment of peripheral lymphedema. In the past, only the most severe and advanced cases of elephantiasis were surgically treated, mainly in order to reduce the volume of lymphedematous limbs, but being highly demolishing and invasive operations, they could not be recommended in less...

The authors, after a short introduction on historical role of surgery and microsurgery in lymphatic vessel pathology, report their own 25-year experience in lymphatic microsurgery and lymphatic-venous-lymphatic anastomoses. In particular, the authors describe the derivative and reconstructive microsurgical techniques, pointing out the...

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Analysis of the international literature has demonstrated a lack of significant data on the epidemiology of lymphedema, in that the research is limited to the clinical observations of each working group and its corresponding geographical area. We have attempted to group together and analyze a larger number of patients from the various regions...

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