Buerger's disease (thromboangiitis obliterans): clinical features and assessment by colour duplex ultrasound
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Buerger's disease (thromboangiitis obliterans): clinical features and assessment by colour duplex ultrasound
Buerger's disease is a progressive, nonatherosclerotic, segmental inflammatory vasoocclusive disease of unknown aetiology1-9, affecting the small and medium sized arteries, veins and nerves and is often bilateral5-7. The normal structure of the vessel wall is usually preserved, including the internal elastic lamina and media. Buerger's disease predominantly affects male cigarette smokers1-3,8 w...
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Figure 1. Black and gangrenous eschar tissue in the right third digit previously amputated to the middle phalanx with distal gangrene and erythema around the right middle metacarpophalangeal joint.
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Thromboangiitis obliterans (Buerger disease) is an occlusive, nonatherosclerotic, inflammatory vasculitis that causes ischemia in small and medium vessels. Most commonly, Buerger disease is diagnosed in 40- to 45-year-old men with a heavy smoking history. Our case exemplifies the most common presentation, diagnosis, and treatment in a 53-year-old male smoker who presents with arm pain and dusky...
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عنوان ژورنال: Australasian Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1836-6864
DOI: 10.1002/j.2205-0140.2011.tb00126.x