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In 45 women with lipedema, ICG lymphography showed a linear lymphatic pattern in 100% of patients (with only one trauma-related dermal rerouting), and 56% were classified as 'drainage-needing' because the dye did not reach the groin within 25 minutes; lymphatic transit correlated with symptom duration rather than fat accumulation or staging.

Created: 2026-05-31 · Last updated: 2026-05-31

Auto-compiled by the Layer 1 surveillance loop; not yet human-reviewed. anthropic/claude-opus-4.8 · 2026-05-31

Evidence over time

Evidence (1)

• Indocyanine green lymphography as novel tool to assess lymphatics in patients with lipedema — Buso et al. (2021) — context · cross sectional · 2021
  The article uses ICG lymphography (not MRI/lymphoscintigraphy/DXA as primary differentiator, though DXA is used adjunctively) to characterize lymphatic function/anatomy in lipedema, describing functional impairment without major anatomical

Context (PECO)

Answers these questions

• Can MRI, lymphoscintigraphy, or DXA differentiate lipedema from lymphedema and other fat distributions? context

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• 2026-05-31 — created · auto-ingested for SQ-LIP-000023

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