FACTITIAL EDEMA
PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen A 38-year-old woman presented with a persistently swollen left leg. The patient related that the swelling postdated a vague left calf injury incurred 6 months…
PERCUTANEOUS ENDOVENOUS INTERVENTION IN FEMOROPOPLITEAL DEEP VENOUS THROMBOSIS
PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen A 36-year-old previously healthy man presents with a swollen and painful right calf 1 week after returning from a trip to Europe. On examination, the…
CHRONIC MESENTERIC ISCHEMIA
PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen A 66-year-old woman with long-standing tobacco use presented with recurrent postprandial abdominal pain and food aversion for the last 18 months. An associated weight loss…
ENDOVENOUS LASER ABLATION FOR VARICOSE VEINS
PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen A 35-year-old woman, mother of three, presented with a progressive increase in the size of the vein on the inside of her thigh during her…
PANNICULITIS
PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen A 26-year-old Caucasian woman presents for evaluation of painful, red nodules on her bilateral shins that started several days ago. The nodules were initially bright…
PAGET-SCHROETTER SYNDROME
PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen A previously healthy 22-year-old man presents with a 3-day history of right upper extremity swelling and pain. He is a competitive cross fit athlete and…
PHLEGMASIA CERULEA DOLENS
PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen A 65-year-old gentleman was referred with left lower extremity phlegmasia cerulea dolens (PCD) 1 day following an exploratory laparotomy. Postoperatively he developed painful diffuse swelling…
OVERVIEW OF SPIDER, RETICULAR, AND VARICOSE VEINS
PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen A 44-year-old man presents with a 5-year history of progressive right lower extremity pain, discomfort, swelling and prominent calf veins (Figure 63-1). His symptoms occur…
STASIS DERMATITIS
PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen A 55-year-old-woman was admitted to the hospital to rule out bilateral lower extremity cellulitis. She presented with lower extremity edema and sharply demarcated pretibial erythema…
MESENTERIC VENOUS THROMBOSIS
PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen A 76-year-old Caucasian man presented with acute onset of intense periumbilical abdominal pain associated with nonbloody diarrhea. His past medical history was significant for portal…
