Anasarca sparing one limb

Upper extremity deep vein thrombosis commonly refers to thrombosis of the axillary and/or subclavian veins. This condition may lead to some serious complications like pulmonary embolism if the diagnosis and treatment are delayed. We introduce here one such case where the diagnosis of this rare condi...

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Autores principales: Pande, Arunkumar R., Aggarwal, Ramesh, Sharma, Sunita, Kumar, Amit G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3145295/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21814376
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.83022
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description Upper extremity deep vein thrombosis commonly refers to thrombosis of the axillary and/or subclavian veins. This condition may lead to some serious complications like pulmonary embolism if the diagnosis and treatment are delayed. We introduce here one such case where the diagnosis of this rare condition was difficult because of the atypical clinical manifestation but the chylous ascites provided a valuable clue which led to early diagnosis and treatment of this patient.
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spelling pubmed-31452952011-08-03 Anasarca sparing one limb Pande, Arunkumar R. Aggarwal, Ramesh Sharma, Sunita Kumar, Amit G. Indian J Crit Care Med Case Report Upper extremity deep vein thrombosis commonly refers to thrombosis of the axillary and/or subclavian veins. This condition may lead to some serious complications like pulmonary embolism if the diagnosis and treatment are delayed. We introduce here one such case where the diagnosis of this rare condition was difficult because of the atypical clinical manifestation but the chylous ascites provided a valuable clue which led to early diagnosis and treatment of this patient. Medknow Publications 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3145295/ /pubmed/21814376 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.83022 Text en © Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Anasarca sparing one limb
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3145295/
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