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2022 Jan 07


Surg Obes Relat Dis

Persistent lipedema pain in patients after bariatric surgery: a case series of 13 patients.

Authors

Cornely ME, Hasenberg T, Cornely OA, Ure C, Hettenhausen C, Schmidt J
Surg Obes Relat Dis. 2022 Jan 07.
PMID: 35144895.

Abstract

Lipedema often remains undiagnosed in patients with obesity, leading to mismanagement of treatment. Because of this, despite remarkable weight loss after bariatric surgery and decreases in hip and abdomen circumference, some patients show only small decreases in circumference of the extremities and report persistent limb pain.