TY - JOUR
T1 - Buerger's disease in a 19-year-old woman
AU - Matsushita, Masahiro
AU - Kuzuya, Akihiko
AU - Kobayashi, Masayoshi
AU - Nishikimi, Naomichi
AU - Ito, Masafumi
AU - Oba, Yasuhiro
AU - Yano, Takashi
AU - Komori, Kimihiro
PY - 2003/7
Y1 - 2003/7
N2 - A 19-year-old female college student had numbness and the sensation of coldness of her left toes. She had a 3-year smoking history. Gangrene of the left foot developed rapidly. Angiography revealed peripheral arterial occlusion of both legs and arms. Detailed laboratory examination excluded collagen disease, a hypercoagulable state, and juvenile atherosclerosis. Below-knee amputation of the left leg was performed. Typical histologic findings of Buerger's disease were observed in the crural arteries and saphenous veins. The clinical course was uneventful after the patient stopped smoking. This is the second case report of Buerger's disease in a woman in the second decade of life. It is important that a correct diagnosis of Buerger's disease be established, because the disease process is benign, compared with collagen disease, if the patient stops smoking.
AB - A 19-year-old female college student had numbness and the sensation of coldness of her left toes. She had a 3-year smoking history. Gangrene of the left foot developed rapidly. Angiography revealed peripheral arterial occlusion of both legs and arms. Detailed laboratory examination excluded collagen disease, a hypercoagulable state, and juvenile atherosclerosis. Below-knee amputation of the left leg was performed. Typical histologic findings of Buerger's disease were observed in the crural arteries and saphenous veins. The clinical course was uneventful after the patient stopped smoking. This is the second case report of Buerger's disease in a woman in the second decade of life. It is important that a correct diagnosis of Buerger's disease be established, because the disease process is benign, compared with collagen disease, if the patient stops smoking.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0741-5214(03)00128-9
DO - 10.1016/S0741-5214(03)00128-9
M3 - Article
C2 - 12844108
AN - SCOPUS:0038785764
SN - 0741-5214
VL - 38
SP - 175
EP - 179
JO - Journal of Vascular Surgery
JF - Journal of Vascular Surgery
IS - 1
ER -