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CLT LANA EXAM Questions And Answers
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Stage 1 Lipedema - Answer✔Fat
Swelling resolves with rest/elevation
Stage 2 Lipedema - Answer✔Peau' d' orange
Easy bruising
Less resolution w/ rest and elevation
Stage 3 Lipedema - Answer✔Fibrosclerosis- hard connective tissue
LARGE mass of skin
Swelling doesn't recede
Stage 4 Lipedema - Answer✔Fibrosclerosis/Elephantitis
LARGER Masses of skin overhang
LIPO-LYMPHEDEMA (becomes lymphedema at this stage)
Columnar pants - Answer✔column like swelling with lipedema
Harem pants (pantaloons) - Answer✔like princess Jazmine pants in Aladin lipedema
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jodhpurs (riding breeches) - Answer✔big hips and smaller calfs lipedema
Lymphedema Stage 0 AKA - Answer✔Subclinical or Latent Stage
Lymphedema Stage 0 Characteristics - Answer✔-No swelling
-Reduced TC and functional reserve
-Normal tissue consistency but US can reveal changes
-May have heaviness, achiness, warmth (Transient symptoms)
-Education/prevention
Lymphedema Stage 1 AKA - Answer✔Reversible Stage
Lymphedema Stage 1 Characteristics - Answer✔-Pitting edema that goes down w/ elevation or
treatment
heavy, aching, fatigued
-Puffy
Goal-reduce edema
- negative or borderline stemmer sign
Lymphedema Stage 2 AKA - Answer✔Spontaneously Irreversible Stage
Lymphedema Stage 2 Characteristics - Answer✔-FIBROSIS
-Hard, lumpy, thickened, sludgy tissue
-Non-pitting.
-Edema that can be partially reduced or is irreversible
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-Prone to infections
Lymphedema Stage 3 AKA - Answer✔Elephantiasis or
Sclerotic Lymphedema
Lymphedema Stage 3 Characteristics - Answer✔-SECONDARY SKIN CHANGES
-Trigger is infection/cellulitis
-Skin folds/distorted shapes
-Severe skin changes- papillomatosis, hyperkeratosis, lichenification, hyperpigmentation
Initial Lymphatics AKA - Answer✔Lymph Plexus
initial lymph collectors
initial lymph vessels
Initial Lymphatics Characterisitics - Answer✔LOCATED: Just under epitheal layer of epidermis
and in the subendothelial lining of mucous membranes
-LARGER THAN BCs
-PICK UP LLs
-Irregular lumen with a discontinuous basement membrane of a single layer of flat oak leaf in
shape LECs
PRE-COLLECTORS - Answer✔-FOUND in- superficial portions of the dermis & end at the
collectors in the subcutaneous tissue
-CONNECT initial lymphatics to collectors
-Has some smooth muscle and some valves
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CLT LANA EXAM Questions And Answers
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Stage 1 Lipedema - Answer✔Fat
Swelling resolves with rest/elevation
Stage 2 Lipedema - Answer✔Peau' d' orange
Easy bruising
Less resolution w/ rest and elevation
Stage 3 Lipedema - Answer✔Fibrosclerosis- hard connective tissue
LARGE mass of skin
Swelling doesn't recede
Stage 4 Lipedema - Answer✔Fibrosclerosis/Elephantitis
LARGER Masses of skin overhang
LIPO-LYMPHEDEMA (becomes lymphedema at this stage)
Columnar pants - Answer✔column like swelling with lipedema
Harem pants (pantaloons) - Answer✔like princess Jazmine pants in Aladin lipedema
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jodhpurs (riding breeches) - Answer✔big hips and smaller calfs lipedema
Lymphedema Stage 0 AKA - Answer✔Subclinical or Latent Stage
Lymphedema Stage 0 Characteristics - Answer✔-No swelling
-Reduced TC and functional reserve
-Normal tissue consistency but US can reveal changes
-May have heaviness, achiness, warmth (Transient symptoms)
-Education/prevention
Lymphedema Stage 1 AKA - Answer✔Reversible Stage
Lymphedema Stage 1 Characteristics - Answer✔-Pitting edema that goes down w/ elevation or
treatment
heavy, aching, fatigued
-Puffy
Goal-reduce edema
- negative or borderline stemmer sign
Lymphedema Stage 2 AKA - Answer✔Spontaneously Irreversible Stage
Lymphedema Stage 2 Characteristics - Answer✔-FIBROSIS
-Hard, lumpy, thickened, sludgy tissue
-Non-pitting.
-Edema that can be partially reduced or is irreversible
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-Prone to infections
Lymphedema Stage 3 AKA - Answer✔Elephantiasis or
Sclerotic Lymphedema
Lymphedema Stage 3 Characteristics - Answer✔-SECONDARY SKIN CHANGES
-Trigger is infection/cellulitis
-Skin folds/distorted shapes
-Severe skin changes- papillomatosis, hyperkeratosis, lichenification, hyperpigmentation
Initial Lymphatics AKA - Answer✔Lymph Plexus
initial lymph collectors
initial lymph vessels
Initial Lymphatics Characterisitics - Answer✔LOCATED: Just under epitheal layer of epidermis
and in the subendothelial lining of mucous membranes
-LARGER THAN BCs
-PICK UP LLs
-Irregular lumen with a discontinuous basement membrane of a single layer of flat oak leaf in
shape LECs
PRE-COLLECTORS - Answer✔-FOUND in- superficial portions of the dermis & end at the
collectors in the subcutaneous tissue
-CONNECT initial lymphatics to collectors
-Has some smooth muscle and some valves
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