by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 29, 2015 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
A lot of patients with chronic venous disease develop lymphedema. The “red legs” they get can be mistaken for cellulitis although they are usually the commonly seen vasodilation of blood vessels seen with lymphedema, sometimes superimposed on hemosiderin...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 24, 2015 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
Welcome to “what is it Wednesdays” in June. What is wrong with the abdominal pannus of this morbidly obese patient? He’s actually got venous stasis of the pannus with secondary lymphedema. Note the fibromas. How are we going to handle the epidemic of morbid obesity in...
