The ugly face of deep vein thrombosis: Phlegmasia Cerulea Dolens-Case report.

Introduction: Phlegmasia Cerulea Dolens (PCD), a rare & life-threatening condition caused by a massive deep venous thrombosis that is associated with arterial occlusion caused by the subsequent compartment syndrome.

Case Presentation: A 56-year-old male was diagnosed as a case of extensive left femoral DVT & pulmonary embolism. Two days after being managed by systemic thrombolytics & heparin, his condition worsened as he developed cyanosis of the affected limb, compartment syndrome & foot drop so he was referred to our facility for further management.

Fluence-to-effective dose conversion coefficients from a Saudi population based phantom for monoenergetic photon beams from 10 keV to 20 MeV.

Fluence-to-dose conversion coefficients are important quantities for radiation protection, derived from Monte Carlo simulations of the radiation particles through a stylised phantom or voxel based phantoms. The voxel phantoms have been developed for many ethnic groups for their accurate reflection of the anatomy. In this study, we used the Monte Carlo code MCNPX to calculate the photon fluence-to-effective dose conversion coefficients with a voxel phantom based on the Saudi Arabian male population.