title: [Inflammatory bowel disease and lower limb lymphedema: a fortuitous association?].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Extra-intestinal manifestations of chronic inflammatory bowel disease (CIBD) are various. Cases of genital lymphedema has previously been reported in Crohn's disease.
  
  
  METHODS
  We report two women aged 57 and 68 years who presented with a lower limb lymphedema 8 and 20 years after a diagnosis of CIBD (Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis), respectively. At the time of diagnosis of lymphedema, CIBD was asymptomatic.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Pathophysiological mechanisms of this rare manifestation are unclear and lymphedema outcome is unrelated to CIBD activity.
authors.affiliation: Unité de lymphologie, hôpital Cognacq-Jay, 15 rue Eugène-Millon, Paris, France.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Arrault
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Blanchard
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Vignes
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003093:Colitis, Ulcerative / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D003424:Crohn Disease / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D035002:Lower Extremity; D008209:Lymphedema / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D053828:Stockings, Compression; D016896:Treatment Outcome