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[Raynaud's phenomenone: prospective study of 100 cases (author's transl)]
Abstract:
A prospective study of 100 consecutive patients hospitalised with a Raynaud phenomenone is presented. In 82 patients, a precise etiology was pound, most often a collagen disease (50 cases) and amongst this group generalised scleroderma was the most commun (n = 37). Other etiologies were very divers: inflamatory artertis, atheroma, local mecanical causes, emboligenic. In 18 patients, no etiology was found: the age, the sex, the context and the benign cours in this patients was such that a diagnosis of idiopathic Raynaud's phenomenone. This results lead to the suggestion of a method for the investigation of Raynaud's phenomenone. The consequences are therapeutic, the etiological context foring the base of the treatment prescribe.