[Lymphostasis and the venous wall. Therapeutic implications]

Lymph oedema have to be treated in the same way that complications of chronic venous deficiency of the lower limbs are usually treated. Isolated or linked, these two pathological conditions call for the same therapeutic method: reduction; if lymphostatic phenomena persist, it is then necessary to have recourse to lymphatic drainage and/or to compression; surgical treatment must continue to be regarded as exceptional.