Thromboangiitis obliterans (Buerger's disease) in an elderly man after cessation of cigarette smoking--a case report.
Thromboangiitis obliterans (Buerger's disease) is an occlusive vascular disease that occurs almost exclusively in young male tobacco users. A unique case is documented here in which Buerger's disease affecting the upper limbs was diagnosed in a sixty-two-year-old man who was a cigarette smoker but had stopped smoking fifteen years earlier.
Department of Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.
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D001132:Arm / Q000098:blood supply; D001158:Arteries / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012907:Smoking / Q000009:adverse effects; D013919:Thromboangiitis Obliterans / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D013997:Time Factors