The New England Journal of Medicine
e-mail icon  FREE NEJM E-TOC    HOME   |   SUBSCRIBE   |   CURRENT ISSUE   |   PAST ISSUES   |   COLLECTIONS   |    Advanced Search
Sign in | Get NEJM's E-Mail Table of Contents — Free | Subscribe
 
Images in Clinical Medicine
PreviousPrevious
Volume 350:e5 February 5, 2004 Number 6
NextNext

Congenital Lymphedema

Since this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

 Sign up for free e-toc
 

This Article
-Full Text
- PDF

Tools and Services
-Add to Personal Archive
-Add to Citation Manager
-Notify a Friend
-E-mail When Cited
-E-mail When Letters Appear

More Information
-PubMed Citation

Figure Removed (Available Only in the Full Text)
View larger version (49K):
[in this window]
[in a new window]
 
A full-term infant born to a woman (gravida 1, para 1) with a history of gestational diabetes presented with edema of the right leg (Panel A). When the infant was one week of age, lymphoscintigraphy (Panel B) showed prompt migration of the radiopharmaceutical agent from the left foot to the inguinal lymph nodes, but there was no migration in the right leg. There was no evidence of a lymph channel. The findings on this scan suggested the presence of congenital aplasia of the lymph system in the right leg. Subsequent magnetic resonance imaging (Panel C) revealed some patchy infiltration of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

 



HOME  |  SUBSCRIBE  |  SEARCH  |  CURRENT ISSUE  |  PAST ISSUES  |  COLLECTIONS  |  PRIVACY  |  TERMS OF USE  |  HELP  |  beta.nejm.org

Comments and questions? Please contact us.

The New England Journal of Medicine is owned, published, and copyrighted © 2009 Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved.