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A systematic review of 32 studies (1154 lipedema patients) found that lymphoscintigraphy shows slowed lymphatic flow with frequent asymmetry, MRI/MR lymphangiography shows increased subcutaneous adipose tissue and enlarged lymphatic vessels (up to 2 mm), and DXA shows leg fat mass adjusted for BMI ≥0.46 or for total fat mass ≥0.384, but the diagnostic performance of all available imaging modalities for distinguishing lipedema is limited.

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

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• DOI:10.1111/obr.13648 — refines · review · 2024
  Systematic review directly evaluating MRI, lymphoscintigraphy, and DXA features for characterizing lipedema; reports differentiating features but concludes diagnostic performance is limited, refining the affirmative claim.

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

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

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