LVA for Advanced Unilateral Lower Extremity Lymphedema: Impact of ICG Lymphography of Normal Side in Improving the Lymphatic Detection Rate and Operative Time

Usama Abdelfattah; Tarek Elbanoby; Mona Omarah; Saber M. Abdelmaksoud; Eatmad Allam; Serag Monir

doi:10.1055/a-2511-8588

Archives of Plastic Surgery (May 2025)

LVA for Advanced Unilateral Lower Extremity Lymphedema: Impact of ICG Lymphography of Normal Side in Improving the Lymphatic Detection Rate and Operative Time

Usama Abdelfattah,
Tarek Elbanoby,
Mona Omarah,
Saber M. Abdelmaksoud,
Eatmad Allam,
Serag Monir

Affiliations

Usama Abdelfattah: ORCiD; Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt
Tarek Elbanoby: ORCiD; Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt
Mona Omarah: ORCiD; Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, El Nile Insurance Hospital, Cairo, Egypt
Saber M. Abdelmaksoud: ORCiD; Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Port Said University, Port Said, Egypt
Eatmad Allam: ORCiD; Department of Physiotherapy, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt
Serag Monir: ORCiD; Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1055/a-2511-8588
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 52, no. 03
pp. 178 – 184

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Background Indocyanine green (ICG) lymphography has limited use in the detection of functioning lymphatics in advanced lymphedema. This study presents the use of normal-side ICG lymphography to navigate the potential sites of functional lymphatics and reports its impact on the lymphatic detection rate and operative time.

Published in Archives of Plastic Surgery

ISSN: 2234-6163 (Print); 2234-6171 (Online)
Publisher: Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc.
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Medicine: Surgery
Website: https://doi.org/10.1055/s-00051611

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