Lymphedema A Concise Compendium of Theory and Practice
Lymphedema: A Concise Compendium of Theory and Practice brings into one volume the most important sources of information to guide the evaluation and treatment of patients with lymphedema. The management of chronic lymphedema continues to challenge both pa
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Byung-Boong Lee John Bergan Stanley G. Rockson Editors
Lymphedema A Concise Compendium of Theory and Practice
Editors Byung-Boong Lee, MD Department of Surgery Division of Vascular Surgery George Washington University School of Medicine Washington, DC USA John Bergan, MD Vein Institute of La Jolla University of California La Jolla, CA USA Stanley G. Rockson, MD Division of Cardiovascular Medicine Stanford University School of Medicine Falk Cardiovascular Research Center Stanford, CA USA
ISBN 978-0-85729-566-8 e-ISBN 978-0-85729-567-5 DOI 10.1007/978-0-85729-567-5 Springer London Dordrecht Heidelberg New York British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Control Number: 2011928401 © Springer-Verlag London Limited 2011 Whilst we have made considerable efforts to contact all holders of copyright material contained in this book, we may have failed to locate some of them. Should holders wish to contact the Publisher, we will be happy to come to some arrangement with them. Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, this publication may only be reproduced, stored or transmitted, in any form or by any means, with the prior permission in writing of the publishers, or in the case of reprographic reproduction in accordance with the terms of licenses issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside those terms should be sent to the publishers. The use of registered names, trademarks, etc., in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Product liability: The publisher can give no guarantee for information about drug dosage and application thereof contained in this book. In every individual case the respective user must check its accuracy by consulting other pharmaceutical literature. Cover design: SPI Publisher Services Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Foreword
The entire field of vascular diseases has experienced phenomenal progress during the past few decades. Multiple books and journal publications are silent witnesses to the dramatic advances in the diagnosis and management of arterial and venous diseases. Endovascular prosthesis, bare and covered stents, and complex endoluminal techniques dealing with the devastating sequelae of atherosclerosis have dramatically changed our approach to abdominal and thoracic aneurysms, obstructive coronary and carotid lesions, as well as arterial occlusion of the extremities. The same technological revolution has reached the field of venous diseases. The traditional “long and short” saphenous stripping for varicose veins that many of us performed during decades of vascular surgery practice, have been replaced by foam sclerotherapy,
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