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Sudden swelling and redness of the toe

The presence of history of redness and swelling of toe in an infant without history of trauma is typical of hair threat tourniquet syndrome. The treatment simply involves incision and removal of hair fibers. Physicians should be aware of this syndrome because early diagnosis and treatment avoid seri...

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Autores principales: Tengattini, Vera, Magnano, Michela, Patrizi, Annalisa, Neri, Iria
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5676277/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29152297
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1115
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spelling pubmed-56762772017-11-17 Sudden swelling and redness of the toe Tengattini, Vera Magnano, Michela Patrizi, Annalisa Neri, Iria Clin Case Rep Clinical Images The presence of history of redness and swelling of toe in an infant without history of trauma is typical of hair threat tourniquet syndrome. The treatment simply involves incision and removal of hair fibers. Physicians should be aware of this syndrome because early diagnosis and treatment avoid serious complications. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017-09-21 /pmc/articles/PMC5676277/ /pubmed/29152297 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1115 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Tengattini, Vera
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Patrizi, Annalisa
Neri, Iria
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title Sudden swelling and redness of the toe
title_full Sudden swelling and redness of the toe
title_fullStr Sudden swelling and redness of the toe
title_full_unstemmed Sudden swelling and redness of the toe
title_short Sudden swelling and redness of the toe
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5676277/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29152297
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1115
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