Lymphedema is a chronic swelling or edema in a limb caused by a build-up of lymph fluid. This happens when the lymphatic system is damaged in some way. One common cause of damage is surgery, ...

Lymphatic disorders encompass a spectrum of conditions arising from dysfunction or disruption of the lymphatic system. Manifestations such as chylous ascites, chylothorax and postoperative lymphoceles ...

It’s easy to write off puffy ankles, swollen fingers, cellulite-dimpled thighs or belly bloat as little inconveniences we see when we look in the mirror. But they are actually signs that a ...

For once, the Greeks had no word for it: they neither understood nor named the body’s system of glands and connecting channels through which colorless fluids flow. The Romans did coin a name, but for ...

Last week, frankly astonished by his findings, Dean Cecil Kent Drinker of Harvard’s School of Public Health went to Chicago to give a convention of the American College of Surgeons his explanation of ...