DISEASES
OF THE LYMPHATIC SYSTEM:
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Carl Smith's
disease (Smith's disease (Carl Smith))
A
benign condition most frequently seen in children, occasionally in young
adults.
usually characterized by pronounced
lymphocytosis.
Castleman's angiofollicular
hyperplasia (Castleman's disease)
A pathological
condition characterized by large, benign, hyperplastic lymph nodes
containing concentric perivascular aggregates of
lymphocytes.
Castleman's
disease
A pathological condition
characterized by large, benign, hyperplastic lymph nodes
containing
concentric perivascular aggregates of lymphocytes.
Castleman's
disease (Castleman's tumour)
Unusual mediastinal
lymph node hyperplasia resembling thymoma.
Castleman's lymphadenopathy
(Castleman's disease)
A pathological
condition characterized by large, benign, hyperplastic lymph nodes
containing concentric perivascular aggregates of
lymphocytes.
Castleman's lymphoma
(Castleman's tumour)
Unusual mediastinal
lymph node hyperplasia resembling thymoma.
Castleman's tumour (Castleman's
disease)
A pathological condition
characterized by large, benign, hyperplastic lymph nodes
containing
concentric perivascular aggregates of lymphocytes.
Castleman's
tumour
Unusual mediastinal lymph node
hyperplasia resembling thymoma.
Destombes-Rosai-Dorfman syndrome
(Rosai-Dorfman syndrome)
A disturbance that
presents with massive painless lymphadenopathy in the neck,
often
bilateral.
Kikuchi-Fujimoto
disease
A benign form of necrotising
lymphadenitis.
Kikuchiâs disease
(Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease)
A benign form of
necrotising lymphadenitis
Kikuchiâs necrotising
lymphadenitis
Kikuchiâs syndrome
(Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease)
A benign form of
necrotising lymphadenitis.
Meige's disease
(Nonne-Milroy-Meige disease)
Chronic familial
lymphoedema of the limbs, which manifests with pittings and
painless brawny swellings (lymphedema) of the ankles and
shins.
Meige's syndrome I
(Nonne-Milroy-Meige disease)
Chronic familial
lymphoedema of the limbs, which manifests with pittings and
painless brawny swellings (lymphedema) of the ankles and
shins.
Milroy's disease
(Nonne-Milroy-Meige disease)
Chronic familial
lymphoedema of the limbs, which manifests with pittings and
painless brawny swellings (lymphedema) of the ankles and
shins.
Nonne-Milroy syndrome
(Nonne-Milroy-Meige disease)
Chronic familial
lymphoedema of the limbs, which manifests with pittings and
painless brawny swellings (lymphedema) of the ankles and
shins.
Nonne-Milroy-Meige
disease
Chronic familial lymphoedema of the
limbs, which manifests with pittings and
painless brawny swellings
(lymphedema) of the ankles and shins.
Nonne-Milroy-Meige syndrome
(Nonne-Milroy-Meige disease)
Chronic familial
lymphoedema of the limbs, which manifests with pittings and
painless
brawny swellings (lymphedema) of the ankles and
shins.
Nonneâs syndrome
(Nonne-Milroy-Meige disease)
Chronic familial
lymphoedema of the limbs, which manifests with pittings and
painless brawny swellings (lymphedema) of the ankles and
shins.
Pautrier-Woringer
syndrome
Adenopathy with lipomelanotic
deposits in enlarged lymph nodes occurring in
association with a
variety of chronic non-specific pruritic skin
disorders.
Rosai-Dorfman Disease
(Rosai-Dorfman syndrome)
A disturbance that
presents with massive painless lymphadenopathy in the neck,
often
bilateral.
Rosai-Dorfman
syndrome
A disturbance that presents with
massive painless lymphadenopathy in the neck,
often
bilateral.
Smith's disease (Carl
Smith)
A benign condition most frequently
seen in children, occasionally in young adults.
usually
characterized by pronounced lymphocytosis.
Troisier's ganglion (Troisier's
node or sign)
Enlargement of left
supraclavicular lymph nodes due to deposits of cancer cells that
have metastasised from an obscurely located primary
cancer.
Troisier's node or sign
(Virchow's node)
Enlargement of one of
the supraclavicular lymph nodes.
Troisier's node or
sign
Enlargement of left supraclavicular
lymph nodes due to deposits of cancer cells that
have metastasised
from an obscurely located primary cancer.
Virchow's gland (Virchow's
node)
Enlargement of one of the
supraclavicular lymph nodes.
Virchow's
node
Enlargement of one of the
supraclavicular lymph nodes.
Virchow's node (Troisier's node
or sign)
Enlargement of left supraclavicular
lymph nodes due to deposits of cancer cells that
have metastasised
from an obscurely located primary cancer.
von Recklinghausen's
canals
The lymph
canaliculi.
Warthin-Finkeldey giant
cells
Multinucleated giant cells seen in
the lymphoid tissues of patients with measles
---
Diseases of the
Lymphatics
Reviewed by Barry Monk
Manor Hospital, Biddenham, Bedford MK40
4AW, UK
N Browse, K Burnand, P Mortimer
416 pp Price £145
ISBN
0-340-76203-9 (h/b) London: Arnold (Hodder Headline), 2003 .
Top The sight
of a wheelchair-bound patient with huge lymphoedematous legs being wheeled into
the
consulting room, limbs wrapped in soggy oozing bandages, lymph
dripping on to the floor, is not an
encouraging one. For the
clinician, whether vascular surgeon, dermatologist or oncologist, there are few
spectacular therapeutic rabbits to be pulled out of the hat; for the
patient, there has often been a lifetime of
increasing disability
and frustration. There must be particular disillusionment when patients are
pronounced
'cured' of cancer only to find their lives blighted by
gross lymphoedema of an arm or leg. No wonder, then,
that the
subject has not been fashionable.
Sir Norman Browse and his two co-authors
(a fellow surgeon and a dermatologist) have devoted their
clinical
lifetimes to the study and care of lymphatic disorders. Diseases of the
Lymphatics distils their vast
knowledge and experience and
demonstrates that, although these conditions are rarely amenable to 'quick
fixes', scrupulous attention to the detail of investigation, diagnosis
and treatment can be of enormous benefit
to the patient, even in longstanding and neglected cases. It is a style of care that has gone out of fashion in
much of medical practice. The same dogged logical
approach has been applied with similar benefit to the
organization
of their book. Treatment of lymphatic disease requires a proper understanding
of anatomy and
physiology, and the authors manage to cover these in
detail without ever becoming dull. We then progress
smoothly
through pathology, investigative methods, and medical and surgical therapy;
again there is all the
requisite detail without repetition or
tedium. Throughout, the illustrations are of the highest quality, whether
clinical, operative, or radiographic, and are chosen to enhance the
clarity of the text. There are frequent
helpful tables and the relevant references are all there. Perhaps most important of all, it is a book that will
encourage the reader to give patients with lymphatic
disorders the sort of care they so often miss out on. I
am sure
that it will help create a new generation of enthusiasts.
Some might regard
the price of £145 as a deterrent. On the contrary, I suggest that if the
Department of
Health bought a copy for every vascular surgeon and
dermatologist in the UK (and gave them time to study
it), this
would be a better use of the money than many of their recent initiatives.
Indeed if each copy of the
book purchased led to improved care for a
single patient with severe lymphoedema, its publication would be
justified. I rather suspect that it will do better than that. There are
two other groups who would learn from
consulting this book. First,
there are the people who declare the medical textbook defunct, in this age of
electronic access to information; Diseases of the Lymphatics belies
that notion. Second, I commend it to all
those in medicine who
contemplate writing a monograph on their favourite subject. Study it and aim to
achieve a comparable standard—it will certainly give you a
challenge.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Source:
Articles
from Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine are provided here courtesy
of
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OF THE LYMPHATIC SYSTEM:
FOR INFORMATION ON OTHER CONDITIONS THAT GO
HAND IN HAND
WITH LYMPHEDEMA OR MIMIC
IT:
http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/lymphedema/112293
http://www.collectivites.
com/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Dis
eases/Parasitic/Lymphatic_Filariasis/
Carl Smith's
disease (Smith's disease (Carl Smith))
A
benign condition most frequently seen in children, occasionally in young
adults.
usually characterized by pronounced
lymphocytosis.
Castleman's angiofollicular
hyperplasia (Castleman's disease)
A pathological
condition characterized by large, benign, hyperplastic lymph nodes
containing concentric perivascular aggregates of
lymphocytes.
Castleman's
disease
A pathological condition
characterized by large, benign, hyperplastic lymph nodes
containing
concentric perivascular aggregates of lymphocytes.
Castleman's
disease (Castleman's tumour)
Unusual mediastinal
lymph node hyperplasia resembling thymoma.
Castleman's lymphadenopathy
(Castleman's disease)
A pathological
condition characterized by large, benign, hyperplastic lymph nodes
containing concentric perivascular aggregates of
lymphocytes.
Castleman's lymphoma
(Castleman's tumour)
Unusual mediastinal
lymph node hyperplasia resembling thymoma.
Castleman's tumour (Castleman's
disease)
A pathological condition
characterized by large, benign, hyperplastic lymph nodes
containing
concentric perivascular aggregates of lymphocytes.
Castleman's
tumour
Unusual mediastinal lymph node
hyperplasia resembling thymoma.
Destombes-Rosai-Dorfman syndrome
(Rosai-Dorfman syndrome)
A disturbance that
presents with massive painless lymphadenopathy in the neck,
often
bilateral.
Kikuchi-Fujimoto
disease
A benign form of necrotising
lymphadenitis.
Kikuchiâs disease
(Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease)
A benign form of
necrotising lymphadenitis
Kikuchiâs necrotising
lymphadenitis
Kikuchiâs syndrome
(Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease)
A benign form of
necrotising lymphadenitis.
Meige's disease
(Nonne-Milroy-Meige disease)
Chronic familial
lymphoedema of the limbs, which manifests with pittings and
painless brawny swellings (lymphedema) of the ankles and
shins.
Meige's syndrome I
(Nonne-Milroy-Meige disease)
Chronic familial
lymphoedema of the limbs, which manifests with pittings and
painless brawny swellings (lymphedema) of the ankles and
shins.
Milroy's disease
(Nonne-Milroy-Meige disease)
Chronic familial
lymphoedema of the limbs, which manifests with pittings and
painless brawny swellings (lymphedema) of the ankles and
shins.
Nonne-Milroy syndrome
(Nonne-Milroy-Meige disease)
Chronic familial
lymphoedema of the limbs, which manifests with pittings and
painless brawny swellings (lymphedema) of the ankles and
shins.
Nonne-Milroy-Meige
disease
Chronic familial lymphoedema of the
limbs, which manifests with pittings and
painless brawny swellings
(lymphedema) of the ankles and shins.
Nonne-Milroy-Meige syndrome
(Nonne-Milroy-Meige disease)
Chronic familial
lymphoedema of the limbs, which manifests with pittings and
painless
brawny swellings (lymphedema) of the ankles and
shins.
Nonneâs syndrome
(Nonne-Milroy-Meige disease)
Chronic familial
lymphoedema of the limbs, which manifests with pittings and
painless brawny swellings (lymphedema) of the ankles and
shins.
Pautrier-Woringer
syndrome
Adenopathy with lipomelanotic
deposits in enlarged lymph nodes occurring in
association with a
variety of chronic non-specific pruritic skin
disorders.
Rosai-Dorfman Disease
(Rosai-Dorfman syndrome)
A disturbance that
presents with massive painless lymphadenopathy in the neck,
often
bilateral.
Rosai-Dorfman
syndrome
A disturbance that presents with
massive painless lymphadenopathy in the neck,
often
bilateral.
Smith's disease (Carl
Smith)
A benign condition most frequently
seen in children, occasionally in young adults.
usually
characterized by pronounced lymphocytosis.
Troisier's ganglion (Troisier's
node or sign)
Enlargement of left
supraclavicular lymph nodes due to deposits of cancer cells that
have metastasised from an obscurely located primary
cancer.
Troisier's node or sign
(Virchow's node)
Enlargement of one of
the supraclavicular lymph nodes.
Troisier's node or
sign
Enlargement of left supraclavicular
lymph nodes due to deposits of cancer cells that
have metastasised
from an obscurely located primary cancer.
Virchow's gland (Virchow's
node)
Enlargement of one of the
supraclavicular lymph nodes.
Virchow's
node
Enlargement of one of the
supraclavicular lymph nodes.
Virchow's node (Troisier's node
or sign)
Enlargement of left supraclavicular
lymph nodes due to deposits of cancer cells that
have metastasised
from an obscurely located primary cancer.
von Recklinghausen's
canals
The lymph
canaliculi.
Warthin-Finkeldey giant
cells
Multinucleated giant cells seen in
the lymphoid tissues of patients with measles
---
Diseases of the
Lymphatics
Reviewed by Barry Monk
Manor Hospital, Biddenham, Bedford MK40
4AW, UK
N Browse, K Burnand, P Mortimer
416 pp Price £145
ISBN
0-340-76203-9 (h/b) London: Arnold (Hodder Headline), 2003 .
Top The sight
of a wheelchair-bound patient with huge lymphoedematous legs being wheeled into
the
consulting room, limbs wrapped in soggy oozing bandages, lymph
dripping on to the floor, is not an
encouraging one. For the
clinician, whether vascular surgeon, dermatologist or oncologist, there are few
spectacular therapeutic rabbits to be pulled out of the hat; for the
patient, there has often been a lifetime of
increasing disability
and frustration. There must be particular disillusionment when patients are
pronounced
'cured' of cancer only to find their lives blighted by
gross lymphoedema of an arm or leg. No wonder, then,
that the
subject has not been fashionable.
Sir Norman Browse and his two co-authors
(a fellow surgeon and a dermatologist) have devoted their
clinical
lifetimes to the study and care of lymphatic disorders. Diseases of the
Lymphatics distils their vast
knowledge and experience and
demonstrates that, although these conditions are rarely amenable to 'quick
fixes', scrupulous attention to the detail of investigation, diagnosis
and treatment can be of enormous benefit
to the patient, even in longstanding and neglected cases. It is a style of care that has gone out of fashion in
much of medical practice. The same dogged logical
approach has been applied with similar benefit to the
organization
of their book. Treatment of lymphatic disease requires a proper understanding
of anatomy and
physiology, and the authors manage to cover these in
detail without ever becoming dull. We then progress
smoothly
through pathology, investigative methods, and medical and surgical therapy;
again there is all the
requisite detail without repetition or
tedium. Throughout, the illustrations are of the highest quality, whether
clinical, operative, or radiographic, and are chosen to enhance the
clarity of the text. There are frequent
helpful tables and the relevant references are all there. Perhaps most important of all, it is a book that will
encourage the reader to give patients with lymphatic
disorders the sort of care they so often miss out on. I
am sure
that it will help create a new generation of enthusiasts.
Some might regard
the price of £145 as a deterrent. On the contrary, I suggest that if the
Department of
Health bought a copy for every vascular surgeon and
dermatologist in the UK (and gave them time to study
it), this
would be a better use of the money than many of their recent initiatives.
Indeed if each copy of the
book purchased led to improved care for a
single patient with severe lymphoedema, its publication would be
justified. I rather suspect that it will do better than that. There are
two other groups who would learn from
consulting this book. First,
there are the people who declare the medical textbook defunct, in this age of
electronic access to information; Diseases of the Lymphatics belies
that notion. Second, I commend it to all
those in medicine who
contemplate writing a monograph on their favourite subject. Study it and aim to
achieve a comparable standard—it will certainly give you a
challenge.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Source:
Articles
from Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine are provided here courtesy
of
Royal Society of Medicine
Press
---------------------------------------------------------