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Upper and Lower Extremity Measurement of Tissue Sodium and Fat Content in Patients with Lipedema.

Rachelle L CrescenziPaula M C DonahueKalen J PetersenMaria GarzaNiral PatelChelsea LeeJoshua A BeckmanManus J Donahue
Published in: Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) (2020)
MRI-measured tissue sodium and fat content are significantly higher in the lower extremities, but not upper extremities, of patients with lipedema compared with BMI-matched controls.
Keyphrases
  • adipose tissue
  • magnetic resonance imaging
  • fatty acid
  • soft tissue
  • body mass index
  • diffusion weighted imaging
  • magnetic resonance
  • physical activity
  • weight loss