Many people will have lymph nodes removed during breast cancer surgeries. The lymph nodes will collect and push cancer cell through the lymphatic system. Surgeons will remove some of the nodes to prevent the cancer cells from spreading throughout the body. The lymphatic system is the bodies biological waist removal system. Each cell in the ...
Today’s article is about specialized testing that Lymphedema professionals can take to indicate to their patients they are nationally recognized Lymphedema treatment providers. Those of you readers new to this Series, and all other interested persons, are encouraged to take the time to read about the other topics this Daily Column has detailed and to ...
Lissencephaly Syndrome: A congenital deficiency stemming from abnormal defects of the nervous system, Lissencephaly Syndrome is a rare neurological disorder of early brain development, caused by defective neuronal migrations during the twelfth to twenty-fourth week of fetal gestation, in which brain folds and grooves do not properly form. Lissencephaly Syndrome may occur as an isolated ...
In early March of 1989 I was a fifteen-year-old girl with a mysteriously swelling left foot. This swelling had happened once before, but it went away. Now, this time it did not go away. My mother questioned me as to whether I had twisted my ankle, or been bitten by a bug. I did not ...
Infections: Infections are invasions by microorganisms that seek to use their hosts, by multiplying and interfering with the normal functions of their hosts, creating such possible conditions as chronic wounds, tissue injuries, limb losses, gangrene, and some times even death, or by developing into diseases through cellular or toxic mechanisms. Inflammation, the body’s natural reaction ...
Lymphedema, to put it simply, is swelling, usually in the arms or legs, which is not caused by water retention. Rather, it is drainage of lymph from the trunk, where it is supposed to be. There are several different causes of it, dependent in part on where the lymph winds up. Mine is primarily in ...