Recent views on Buerger's disease.
Eighty-two biopsy specimens of vessels from 37 patients with clinical Buerger's disease were examined histologically and classified. The aetiology of this vascular disorder is discussed and a basis suggested for its pathogenesis as primarily a thrombotic disorder complicated by vasculitis. Thus both acute and chronic lesions are acceptable as entities.
D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D001706:Biopsy; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012737:Sex Factors; D013919:Thromboangiitis Obliterans / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D013924:Thrombophlebitis / Q000150:complications