DIAGNOSTIC COMPARABILITY OF RATIO OF TISSUE DIELECTRIC CONSTANT (TDC) BETWEEN PATIENTS WITH LIPEDEMA AND THOSE WITH LOWER LIMB LYMPHEDEMA (LLL): A PROSPECTIVE OBSERVATIONAL STUDY

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dc.contributor.authorTugral, A.
dc.contributor.authorBakar, Y.
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-20T09:51:26Z
dc.date.available2025-03-20T09:51:26Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.departmentİzmir Bakırçay Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractLipedema is usually thought of as a dis-ease of women. Potentially diagnostic comparative data is needed between patients with lip-edema and those with lower limb lymphedema (LLL). Since there is no gold standard to diag-nose lipedema, some promising modalities such as Tissue Dielectric Constant (TDC) need to be investigated among patients with lipedema and lymphedema. This study was completed with a total of 26 patients (14 lipedema, 12 LLL). Local tissue water was assessed with Moisture MeterD compact (DelfinTech, Kuopio, Fin-land) according to the TDC method at 300 MHz within a 2.5 mm tissue penetration depth via the following reference points: Thigh, calf (20 cm upper and lower point of knee level, respectively), and malleoli (5 cm upper point of medial malleolus). Patients with LLL showed significantly higher TDC values and interlimb TDC ratios in all affected points and unaffect-ed malleolus points compared to patients with lipedema. No significant difference wasachieved between genders with LLL in all ref-erence points. The area under the curve (AUC) for thigh, calf, and malleolus reference points were found as 0.851 (95%CI .678-1.00), 0.801 (95% CI 0.612-0.989) and 0.786 (95%CI 0.596-0.976), respectively. Patients with LLL showed significantly higher TDC values compared to patients with lipedema, these differences should be carefully interpreted in patients with bilateral LLL and those with lipo-lymphedema
dc.identifier.endpage177
dc.identifier.issn0024-7766
dc.identifier.issue4
dc.identifier.pmid39207409
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85203111646
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ2
dc.identifier.startpage168
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14034/2546
dc.identifier.volume56
dc.identifier.wosWOS:001334947200004
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ4
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.indekslendigikaynakPubMed
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherLymphology
dc.relation.ispartofLymphology
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.snmzKA_WOS_20250319
dc.subjectLipedema
dc.subjectlymphedema
dc.subjectlower limb lymphedema
dc.subjecttissue dielectric constant
dc.titleDIAGNOSTIC COMPARABILITY OF RATIO OF TISSUE DIELECTRIC CONSTANT (TDC) BETWEEN PATIENTS WITH LIPEDEMA AND THOSE WITH LOWER LIMB LYMPHEDEMA (LLL): A PROSPECTIVE OBSERVATIONAL STUDY
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