This trial is reported as "Liposuction versus conservative therapy for patients with lipoedema in Germany: a multicentre, randomised controlled clinical trial." It was published in Lancet on 5 September 2026 (Lancet. 2026 Sep 5;408(10558):910-923) and is indexed in PubMed with PMID 42692034. The article DOI is 10.1016/S0140-6736(26)00910-4.
The PubMed entry categorises the work as a Randomized Controlled Trial and identifies it as a multicentre clinical trial conducted in Germany comparing liposuction with conservative therapy in patients with lipoedema. The record explicitly uses the terms multicentre and randomised, indicating a trial with multiple recruiting sites and random allocation of participants.
The PubMed excerpt provides a full author list beginning with Maurizio Podda and including Jeremias Schmidt, Manuel E Cornely, Marten I Steinmetz, Diana Rajewski, Kay-Hendrik Busch, Ziah Taufig, Mojtaba Ghods, Maximilian Kovacs, Sabine Schmid, Daria Kraus, Martin Hellmich, Wiebke Müller, Petra Schiller, and Oliver A Cornely among others.
Affiliated institutions named in the record include departments and clinics across Germany, for example: the Department of Dermatology at Medical Centre Klinikum Darmstadt (teaching hospital of Goethe-University Frankfurt), departments of plastic, aesthetic and reconstructive microsurgery at Ernst von Bergmann Hospital (Bad Belzig), dermatology practice sites and specialised clinics in Cologne and Düsseldorf, Institute of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery at Wald Hospital Bonn, Clinical Trials Centre Cologne (University of Cologne), and institutes of medical statistics and computational biology associated with the University of Cologne and University Medical Center Göttingen. The PubMed record lists full affiliations for the named authors.
The provided PubMed excerpt does not contain the abstract text or any trial content beyond bibliographic and author information. Therefore the following essential trial details are not available in this source excerpt and cannot be summarised here:
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To review the full trial methods, results, and authors’ conclusions, retrieve the Lancet full text using the DOI (10.1016/S0140-6736(26)00910-4) or consult the complete PubMed abstract and linked resources on the PubMed article page. The PubMed entry provides the article citation and author affiliations, which can guide institutional or regional enquiries. Clinicians seeking to apply findings to practice should review the full peer-reviewed article for details on patient selection, intervention specifics, outcomes, and safety data before changing management strategies for lipoedema.
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