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Digital ischemia and occult malignancy
P Paw1, S M Dharan, J M Sackier
1Department of Surgery, University of California, San Diego 92103, USA.
International Journal of Colorectal Disease
|January 1, 1996
Abstract:
Since the early transcript by Raynaud and Trousseau, there has been wide acceptance of the association of occult malignancy and peripheral vascular disease. Recently, there have been a few case reports of acute onset monophasic digital ischemia heralding an occult malignancy. It appears that the site and tumor types seem unimportant in the development of ischemia; tumor resection however, usually results in rapid improvement of the affected digit. The mechanism remains to be established.