Diagnosis and differential diagnosis of lower extremity swelling
LUO Jia-yin
CHEN Zuo-guan
LI Yong-jun
Abstract：Lower extremity swelling may be a manifestation of systemic or local diseases and requires comprehensive diagno-sis and differential diagnosis based on history signs,and auxil-iary examinations.According to different classification meth-ods,it can be divided into symmetrical or asymmetrical pitting or non-pitting acute or chronic infectious or non-infectious and vascular or lymphatic types.The common causes of lower extremity swelling include venous insufficiency deep vein thrombosis heart failure liver disease drug reaction lymphede-ma,and so on.The commonly used auxiliary examinations in-clude Doppler ultrasound,CT-enhanced venography imaging magnetic resonance venography imaging lymphangiography,and so on.The final correct diagnosis depends on comprehen-sive assessment.
Keywords：lower extremity swellingchronic venous insuffi-ciencylymphedemaimaging diagnosis
Publication Date：2023-12-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 1352-1355 )