Nodular elephantoid lymphedema.
An active, robust, alert 90-year-old man has had nodular elephantoid lymphedema on his left leg for sixty-one years. The patient has been managed conservatively and has not experienced significant morbidity or been hospitalized. The skin healed rapidly when small fibrous nodules were surgically removed.
D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D007866:Leg; D008209:Lymphedema / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D012867:Skin / Q000473:pathology*; D012879:Skin Physiological Phenomena; D013997:Time Factors; D014945:Wound Healing