[The diagnosis of lymphedema of the lower extremities and an assessment of the surgical results using computed tomography].

Under study were potentialities of computed tomography (CT) in diagnostics and differential diagnostics of lymphedema of lower extremities by comparing findings of CT in 40 patients (11 men and 29 women) with the I-IV degree lymphedemas. It was shown that data of CT were thought to be an objective basis for the estimation of spreading the injury and efficiency of the operative procedures.