Parkes-Weber syndrome in the emergency department

This case report describes a 20-year-old woman presenting to the emergency department (ED) with unilateral leg swelling. After multiple visits to the ED and workups with rheumatology, dermatology, interventional radiology and genetics, she was finally diagnosed with Parkes-Weber syndrome. The purpos...

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Autores principales: Patel, Raj, Durant, Edward James, Freed, Robert
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8454278/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34544698
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2021-241649
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description This case report describes a 20-year-old woman presenting to the emergency department (ED) with unilateral leg swelling. After multiple visits to the ED and workups with rheumatology, dermatology, interventional radiology and genetics, she was finally diagnosed with Parkes-Weber syndrome. The purpose of this case report is to illustrate the common and uncommon presentations, mimickers and work-up of Parkes-Weber syndrome as well as provide a brief overview of vascular malformations in general.
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spelling pubmed-84542782021-10-05 Parkes-Weber syndrome in the emergency department Patel, Raj Durant, Edward James Freed, Robert BMJ Case Rep Case Report This case report describes a 20-year-old woman presenting to the emergency department (ED) with unilateral leg swelling. After multiple visits to the ED and workups with rheumatology, dermatology, interventional radiology and genetics, she was finally diagnosed with Parkes-Weber syndrome. The purpose of this case report is to illustrate the common and uncommon presentations, mimickers and work-up of Parkes-Weber syndrome as well as provide a brief overview of vascular malformations in general. BMJ Publishing Group 2021-09-20 /pmc/articles/PMC8454278/ /pubmed/34544698 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2021-241649 Text en © BMJ Publishing Group Limited 2021. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) .
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