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Lymph Node-Venous Microvascular Reconstructive Surgery: Filariasis Lymphedema

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The nodo-venous shunt for lymphedema was done in the year 1966 by Dr. Nilubeur Olszewski, as a side-to-side anastomoses, and published. This was done for a case of filarial lymphedema, at the Government General Hospital, Chennai, in the year 1969, by Prof. Nanjund Rao. This was popularized by Prof. Jamal in 1971. We modified this technique to an end-to-end nodo-venous anastomoses, which have been illustrated and explained in the text.

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  1. Senior Consultant Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon & Lymphologist, Apollo Hospitals, 21, Greams Road, Chennai, India

    Gurusamy Manokaran MS, MCh

  2. Past President “International Society of Lymphology”, Tucson, Arizona, USA

    Gurusamy Manokaran MS, MCh

  3. Honorary Associate Prof. Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Gurusamy Manokaran MS, MCh

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  1. Center for the Lymphedema and Vascular Malformations, Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA

    Byung-Boong Lee

  2. Falk Cardiovascular Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA

    Stanley G. Rockson

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Manokaran, G. (2018). Lymph Node-Venous Microvascular Reconstructive Surgery: Filariasis Lymphedema. In: Lee, BB., Rockson, S., Bergan, J. (eds) Lymphedema. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52423-8_49

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