title: Painful extremities and neurological disorder in essential thrombocythaemia.
abstract: Six of 20 patients with essential thrombocythaemia had neurological features and 8 had peripheral vascular symptoms. Four had cerebrovascular ischaemia or stroke and 3 had gangrene. Pain in the extremities may be a striking symptom in this disorder.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005121:Extremities; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology*; D013922:Thrombocytosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology