DefinitionThis section has been translated automatically.
Uniform swelling of individual body parts due to lymph congestion, more rarely due to venous congestion, with increase in connective tissue and thickening of the skin.
EtiopathogenesisThis section has been translated automatically.
Polyätiological. Triggered e.g. post-operatively, post-infectionally, by varicose symptoms, tumours, internal diseases and filariasis.
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