Elephantiasis nostras is a rare cutaneous response to chronic secondary, nonfilarial lymphedema. Our patient had elephantiasis nostras verrucosa (ENV), a hard subtype that can occasionally coexist ...

A leg bypass surgery may be necessary if fatty deposits have clogged a blood vessel, impeding blood flow through the leg. During this surgery, doctors will create a new pathway for blood to travel. If ...

One of the first things that Marc S. Micozzi did when he became director of the National Museum of Health and Medicine in the early 1990s was to move the elephantiasis leg. Grotesquely swollen and ...

It began in 1968, when she was already a woman. Back then, just like many would-be-sufferers, she never thought it held grim ramifications on her part. Jerida Joash, who is now at 78, contracted a ...