림프부종의 생리학적 수술

우경제¹^,^*

Current International Trends of Surgical Treatment of Lymphedema

Kyong-Je Woo¹^,^*

¹이화여자대학교 의과대학 성형외과학교실, 목동병원 성형외과

¹Department of Plastic Surgery, Mokdong Hospital, Ewha Womans University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

^*Corresponding Author : Kyong-Je Woo, MD, PhD, Department of Plastic Surgery, Mokdong Hospital, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, 1071 Anyangchen-ro, Yangchen-ku, Seoul 07985, Korea, Tel: +82-2-2650-5149, Fax: +82-2-2655-0984, E-mail: economywoo@gmail.com

ⓒ Copyright 2019 Korean Society of Lymphology and Lymphedema. This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Received: Nov 08, 2019; Accepted: Nov 18, 2019

Published Online: Nov 30, 2019

Abatract

Lymphedema is a chronic and progressive disease which significantly affects quality of life of the patients. Main treatment of the lymphedema is a rehabilitation therapy including complete decongestive therapy (CDT). Recently, physiologic surgical treatment using microsurgical technique has been popularized. Lympho-venous shunt (lymphatico- venular anastomosis, LVA) and vascularized lymph node transfer are the two main physiologic surgeries for lymphedema. In this review, overview of the two physiologic surgeries are described.

Keywords: Liposuction; Lymph node transfer; Lymphaticovenular anastomosis; Lymphedema; Surgery