title: Surgery in congential lymphedema: a follow-up of 50 years.
abstract: Surgical methods have been widely used in the past to treat patients with congential lymphedema. There are only scant data in recent literature about the long-term outcome of these mostly historical methods. On the other hand, the subject is not only of interest to those concerned with the history of medicine but also may raise a couple of questions about treating such patients today. The authors report on a 77-year-old female patient with congential lymphedema with a 50-year follow-up after lymphedema resection and focus on practical problems of bandaging today.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiotherapy, Hospital Dresden-Friedrichstadt, Dresden, Germany.
authors.forename: Birgit
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Heinig
authors.forename: Uwe
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Wollina