Buerger's disease in a middle-aged woman with diabetes mellitus. A case report.
Buerger's disease or thromboangiitis obliterans with involvement of small arteries of the upper and lower extremities usually afflicts young male smokers, but this report presents a middle-age female nonsmoker with diabetes mellitus who satisfied clinical, angiographic and histologic criteria for the diagnosis of Buerger's disease.
Fujii
Y
Y
Department of Surgery, Mizushima Central Hospital, Kurashiki City, Japan.
Ohmura
Y
Y
Takeuchi
R
R
Morimoto
S
S
Uchida
H
H
Hayashi
K
K
Sano
S
S
D000328:Adult; D001158:Arteries / Q000473:pathology; D048909:Diabetes Complications; D003925:Diabetic Angiopathies / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012307:Risk Factors; D013919:Thromboangiitis Obliterans / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology