Background: Lymphedema is a chronic skin disease that induces tissue fibrosis (stiffness). Tissue tonometry has been used to assess skin and tissue compressibility in lymphedema, primarily in research on arm lymphedema after breast cancer. A digital tonometer, the Indurometer (Flinders and SA Biomedical Engineering, Australia), has shown excellent intra-rater reliability in young healthy people in Australia and Myanmar and was able to detect covert changes in young, asymptomatic Myanmar people infected with lymphatic filariasis. It has not been tested in overt lower-limb lymphedema.

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当用于评估孟加拉国和埃塞俄比亚中度至重度淋巴水肿患者的中小腿组织可压缩性时，硬度计的内部可靠性和一致性。

背景：淋巴水肿是一种慢性皮肤病，可引起组织纤维化（僵硬）。组织眼压测量法已被用于评估淋巴水肿中的皮肤和组织可压缩性，主要用于乳腺癌后手臂淋巴水肿的研究。数字眼压计 Indurometer（澳大利亚弗林德斯和 SA 生物医学工程公司）在澳大利亚和缅甸的年轻健康人群中显示出出色的评分内可靠性，并且能够检测感染淋巴丝虫病的年轻、无症状缅甸人的隐性变化。它尚未在明显的下肢淋巴水肿中进行测试。