A Case of Upper Limb Venous Thrombosis in Paget-Schroetter Syndrome

Deep venous thrombosis (DVT) of the upper extremities is usually secondary to inflammatory processes, malignancy, immobility from trauma, and inherited or acquired thrombophilias. This is a case of a young man who presented to our facility complaining of upper extremity pain and swelling. Imaging re...

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Autor principal: Adekoya, Olusola
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
Materias:
Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7941323/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33717731
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13187
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description Deep venous thrombosis (DVT) of the upper extremities is usually secondary to inflammatory processes, malignancy, immobility from trauma, and inherited or acquired thrombophilias. This is a case of a young man who presented to our facility complaining of upper extremity pain and swelling. Imaging results showed thrombosis in the deep venous system of the left upper extremity, consistent with Paget-Schroetter syndrome.
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spelling pubmed-79413232021-03-11 A Case of Upper Limb Venous Thrombosis in Paget-Schroetter Syndrome Adekoya, Olusola Cureus Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery Deep venous thrombosis (DVT) of the upper extremities is usually secondary to inflammatory processes, malignancy, immobility from trauma, and inherited or acquired thrombophilias. This is a case of a young man who presented to our facility complaining of upper extremity pain and swelling. Imaging results showed thrombosis in the deep venous system of the left upper extremity, consistent with Paget-Schroetter syndrome. Cureus 2021-02-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7941323/ /pubmed/33717731 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13187 Text en Copyright © 2021, Adekoya et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title A Case of Upper Limb Venous Thrombosis in Paget-Schroetter Syndrome
title_full A Case of Upper Limb Venous Thrombosis in Paget-Schroetter Syndrome
title_fullStr A Case of Upper Limb Venous Thrombosis in Paget-Schroetter Syndrome
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title_short A Case of Upper Limb Venous Thrombosis in Paget-Schroetter Syndrome
title_sort case of upper limb venous thrombosis in paget-schroetter syndrome
topic Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7941323/
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