Thick legs - not always lipedema

Thick legs - not always lipedema.

Due to its increased presence in the press and on television, the diagnosis of lipedema is on the way to becoming a trendy diagnosis for those with thick legs. Despite this, one must recognize that lipedema is a very rare disease. It is characterized by disproportional obesity of the extremities, especially in the region of the hip and the legs, hematoma development after minimal trauma, and in...

Venous thrombosis: not always in the legs.

To cite: Rahmani MJH, Amaratunga G, Wright O. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/ bcr-2014-207464 DESCRIPTION We present a case of a 69-year-old woman who was initially admitted due to a fall and was treated for an infective exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), severe acute kidney injury and left femoral condyle fracture. These is...

Not Always Buried Deep

KLP Not Always Efficient

The size of the nondominated set of a vector set is greatly dependent on the size of the original vector set N and the dimension of the vector M . Theoretical analysis shows that when M = O(log N) the original set has big nondominated set which may be the original set itself, and in the case M = O(log N), a classical algorithm (KLP) for finding nondominated set has complexity of KLP higher than...

Understanding Lipedema

"We wish to describe a clinical syndrome, lipedema of the legs, which is frequently very distressing. In our experience it affects solely women. The chief complaint is of swelling of the legs and feet ... On questioning, the physician may elicit that enlargement of the limbs has always been generalized and symmetrical. The swelling below the knees is accentuated when patients are on their feet ...