Pérez Pinar, Montserrat and Pastor Toledo, Regina and Hernandez Castro, Antonio and Solís García del Pozo, Julián (2015) Deep Venous Thrombosis (DVT) in Lower Extremity Amputation as Cause of Pulmonary Embolism. European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 2 (3). pp. 1-2. ISSN 2284-2594
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Abstract
The authors describe the case of a 43-year-old man with a right-leg knee amputation performed 14 years prior. He presented to hospital with dyspnea. A pulmonary embolism was detected. A Doppler ultrasound test showed deep vein thrombosis (DVT), which affected the stump of the amputated limb. When a pulmonary embolism is detected in a patient with an amputated lower limb, an exploration of the stump should be performed to rule out this uncommon complication.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Deep vein thrombosis, limb stump, pulmonary embolism |
| Subjects: | 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) > 616 Malattie (classificare qui la Clinica medica, la medicina basata sull'evidenza, la Medicina interna, la Medicina sperimentale) > 616.1 Malattie del sistema cardiovascolare |
| Depositing User: | Chiara D'Arpa |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Sep 2016 16:26 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Sep 2016 16:26 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/15024 |
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