Measurements of skin elasticity in patients with lipedema of the Moncorps "rusticanus" type
Jagtman, B.A.; Kuiper, J.P.; Brakkee, A.J.
Phlebologie 37(3): 315-319
1984
ISSN/ISBN: 0031-8280 PMID: 6494267 Document Number: 229682
Patients with lipoedema of the typus rusticanus Moncorps show a skin elasticity deficit of the skin of the calf. This is partly due to the derma oedema in the skin of these patients and seems partly to be due to an intrinsic connective tissue defect in the skin of such patients. The auteurs put forward the hypothesis that also present calf muscle pump dysfunction in these patients is the result of a connective tissue defect of the fascia of the muscular compartment, as an expression of a more generalized connective tissue defect.