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A straightforward venous ulcer. Or is it?
1Medical and Vein Centre, Coffs Harbour, New South Wales.
Australian Family Physician
|March 21, 1998
Venous ulcers are common in clinical practice. They are due to end stage skin and subcutaneous damage from sustained venous hypertension. The common cause may be post thrombotic syndrome or primary superficial venous insufficiency. This case illustrates the need to think of inherited thrombophilia as a primary cause.
Venous ulcers are common in clinical practice. They are due to end stage skin and subcutaneous damage from sustained venous hypertension. The common cause may be post thrombotic syndrome or primary superficial venous insufficiency. This case illustrates the need to think of inherited thrombophilia as a primary cause.