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Lymphland International Lymphedema Online
| DISEASES OF THE LYMPHATIC SYSTEM: FOR INFORMATION ON OTHER CONDITIONS THAT GO HAND IN HAND WITH LYMPHEDEMA OR MIMIC IT: http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/lymphedema/112293 http://www.collectivites. com/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Dis eases/Parasitic/Lymphatic_Filariasis/ Carl Smith's disease (Smith's disease (Carl Smith)) A benign condition most frequently seen in children, occasionally in young adults. usually characterized by pronounced lymphocytosis. Castleman's angiofollicular hyperplasia (Castleman's disease) A pathological condition characterized by large, benign, hyperplastic lymph nodes containing concentric perivascular aggregates of lymphocytes. Castleman's disease A pathological condition characterized by large, benign, hyperplastic lymph nodes containing concentric perivascular aggregates of lymphocytes. Castleman's disease (Castleman's tumour) Unusual mediastinal lymph node hyperplasia resembling thymoma. Castleman's lymphadenopathy (Castleman's disease) A pathological condition characterized by large, benign, hyperplastic lymph nodes containing concentric perivascular aggregates of lymphocytes. Castleman's lymphoma (Castleman's tumour) Unusual mediastinal lymph node hyperplasia resembling thymoma. Castleman's tumour (Castleman's disease) A pathological condition characterized by large, benign, hyperplastic lymph nodes containing concentric perivascular aggregates of lymphocytes. Castleman's tumour Unusual mediastinal lymph node hyperplasia resembling thymoma. Destombes-Rosai-Dorfman syndrome (Rosai-Dorfman syndrome) A disturbance that presents with massive painless lymphadenopathy in the neck, often bilateral. Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease A benign form of necrotising lymphadenitis. Kikuchiâs disease (Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease) A benign form of necrotising lymphadenitis Kikuchiâs necrotising lymphadenitis Kikuchiâs syndrome (Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease) A benign form of necrotising lymphadenitis. Meige's disease (Nonne-Milroy-Meige disease) Chronic familial lymphoedema of the limbs, which manifests with pittings and painless brawny swellings (lymphedema) of the ankles and shins. Meige's syndrome I (Nonne-Milroy-Meige disease) Chronic familial lymphoedema of the limbs, which manifests with pittings and painless brawny swellings (lymphedema) of the ankles and shins. Milroy's disease (Nonne-Milroy-Meige disease) Chronic familial lymphoedema of the limbs, which manifests with pittings and painless brawny swellings (lymphedema) of the ankles and shins. Nonne-Milroy syndrome (Nonne-Milroy-Meige disease) Chronic familial lymphoedema of the limbs, which manifests with pittings and painless brawny swellings (lymphedema) of the ankles and shins. Nonne-Milroy-Meige disease Chronic familial lymphoedema of the limbs, which manifests with pittings and painless brawny swellings (lymphedema) of the ankles and shins. Nonne-Milroy-Meige syndrome (Nonne-Milroy-Meige disease) Chronic familial lymphoedema of the limbs, which manifests with pittings and painless brawny swellings (lymphedema) of the ankles and shins. Nonneâs syndrome (Nonne-Milroy-Meige disease) Chronic familial lymphoedema of the limbs, which manifests with pittings and painless brawny swellings (lymphedema) of the ankles and shins. Pautrier-Woringer syndrome Adenopathy with lipomelanotic deposits in enlarged lymph nodes occurring in association with a variety of chronic non-specific pruritic skin disorders. Rosai-Dorfman Disease (Rosai-Dorfman syndrome) A disturbance that presents with massive painless lymphadenopathy in the neck, often bilateral. Rosai-Dorfman syndrome A disturbance that presents with massive painless lymphadenopathy in the neck, often bilateral. Smith's disease (Carl Smith) A benign condition most frequently seen in children, occasionally in young adults. usually characterized by pronounced lymphocytosis. Troisier's ganglion (Troisier's node or sign) Enlargement of left supraclavicular lymph nodes due to deposits of cancer cells that have metastasised from an obscurely located primary cancer. Troisier's node or sign (Virchow's node) Enlargement of one of the supraclavicular lymph nodes. Troisier's node or sign Enlargement of left supraclavicular lymph nodes due to deposits of cancer cells that have metastasised from an obscurely located primary cancer. Virchow's gland (Virchow's node) Enlargement of one of the supraclavicular lymph nodes. Virchow's node Enlargement of one of the supraclavicular lymph nodes. Virchow's node (Troisier's node or sign) Enlargement of left supraclavicular lymph nodes due to deposits of cancer cells that have metastasised from an obscurely located primary cancer. von Recklinghausen's canals The lymph canaliculi. Warthin-Finkeldey giant cells Multinucleated giant cells seen in the lymphoid tissues of patients with measles --- Diseases of the Lymphatics Reviewed by Barry Monk Manor Hospital, Biddenham, Bedford MK40 4AW, UK N Browse, K Burnand, P Mortimer 416 pp Price £145 ISBN 0-340-76203-9 (h/b) London: Arnold (Hodder Headline), 2003 . Top The sight of a wheelchair-bound patient with huge lymphoedematous legs being wheeled into the consulting room, limbs wrapped in soggy oozing bandages, lymph dripping on to the floor, is not an encouraging one. For the clinician, whether vascular surgeon, dermatologist or oncologist, there are few spectacular therapeutic rabbits to be pulled out of the hat; for the patient, there has often been a lifetime of increasing disability and frustration. There must be particular disillusionment when patients are pronounced 'cured' of cancer only to find their lives blighted by gross lymphoedema of an arm or leg. No wonder, then, that the subject has not been fashionable. Sir Norman Browse and his two co-authors (a fellow surgeon and a dermatologist) have devoted their clinical lifetimes to the study and care of lymphatic disorders. Diseases of the Lymphatics distils their vast knowledge and experience and demonstrates that, although these conditions are rarely amenable to 'quick fixes', scrupulous attention to the detail of investigation, diagnosis and treatment can be of enormous benefit to the patient, even in longstanding and neglected cases. It is a style of care that has gone out of fashion in much of medical practice. The same dogged logical approach has been applied with similar benefit to the organization of their book. Treatment of lymphatic disease requires a proper understanding of anatomy and physiology, and the authors manage to cover these in detail without ever becoming dull. We then progress smoothly through pathology, investigative methods, and medical and surgical therapy; again there is all the requisite detail without repetition or tedium. Throughout, the illustrations are of the highest quality, whether clinical, operative, or radiographic, and are chosen to enhance the clarity of the text. There are frequent helpful tables and the relevant references are all there. Perhaps most important of all, it is a book that will encourage the reader to give patients with lymphatic disorders the sort of care they so often miss out on. I am sure that it will help create a new generation of enthusiasts. Some might regard the price of £145 as a deterrent. On the contrary, I suggest that if the Department of Health bought a copy for every vascular surgeon and dermatologist in the UK (and gave them time to study it), this would be a better use of the money than many of their recent initiatives. Indeed if each copy of the book purchased led to improved care for a single patient with severe lymphoedema, its publication would be justified. I rather suspect that it will do better than that. There are two other groups who would learn from consulting this book. First, there are the people who declare the medical textbook defunct, in this age of electronic access to information; Diseases of the Lymphatics belies that notion. Second, I commend it to all those in medicine who contemplate writing a monograph on their favourite subject. Study it and aim to achieve a comparable standard—it will certainly give you a challenge. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Source: Articles from Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine are provided here courtesy of Royal Society of Medicine Press --------------------------------------------------------- |