Leo Buerger: Buerger's disease.
I expect that every reader of this Journal is only too familiar with seeing an elderly patient, male more commonly than female, who is admitted with a gangrenous leg. Younger subjects, in their twenties and thirties, are fortunately much less common; the majority of these are severe and poorly controlled diabetics. I very much doubt if any of you, unless you work in a specialised vascular unit, have seen in this age group an example of thromboangiitis obliterans, more commonly called Buerger's disease.
Department of Anatomy, University of London, Guy's Campus, Guy's Hospital, London, SE1 1UL.
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D000328:Adult; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013919:Thromboangiitis Obliterans / Q000266:history*; D055815:Young Adult