VASCERN News
17 December 2024
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A new collaborative review paper on Primary Lymphedema has just been published in Nature Reviews Disease Primers and is co-authored by Dr. Robert Damstra (Pediatric and Primary Lymphedema (PPL) WG Chair) and Professor Miikka Vikkula (Vascular Anomalies (VASCA) WG Chair).
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From basic science to a clinical description of primary lymphedema, including diagnosis, screening, imaging, current treatments and outlook, this publication provides a comprehensive review of the various types of primary lymphedema (both syndromic and non-syndromic). We congratulate the authors for their work in making this excellent resource available to the rare disease community.
Reference: Brouillard, P., Witte, M.H., Erickson, R.P. et al. Primary lymphoedema. Nat Rev Dis Primers 7, 77 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41572-021-00309-7