[Diagnosis of disorders of lymph flow in restricted edema of the lower limbs].

The direct "inferior" lymphography of the medial superficial collector was used for the examination of 45 patients with posttraumatic edemas of lower extremities. The cause of them was shown to be not only a trauma of major collectors but also multiple injuries of smaller lymph vessels, the stabilization of the process and reduced edema being developed at the expense of organization of the lateral lymph flow by branching the lymph vessels of the collector inferior to the blockade level, and in its certain portions by anastomoses between the sources of smaller vessels falling into different segments of the main pathway.