Lung cancer is the commonest cause of acrometastatic disease to the fingers. Here we describe a case of occult lung cancer presenting as unrelenting finger pain and swelling from a metastatic phalangeal fracture. The patient's management was largely palliative and he died soon after discovery of the primary tumor.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective And Importance: Median nerve neuropathy can be clinically devastating to a patient. It can be caused by compression of the median nerve anywhere along its course. We present the case of delayed median nerve neuropathy after the placement of a vascular graft in the arm.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis case is of a man with bilateral lower-extremity ischemia and a solitary nonhealing ulcerated lesion of the right great toe. After revascularization with an aortobifemoral bypass, his right ABI increased from 0.5 to approximately 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSpine (Phila Pa 1976)
April 1997
Study Design: A case report of a patient with progressive cervical spinal instability secondary to hydatid disease and the operative therapy.
Objective: To document how the combination of contemporary imaging, medical, and operative methods has obviated severe neurologic sequelae in a patient's cervical spine ravaged by hydatidosis.
Summary Of Background Data: The incidence of hydatid disease in the vertebral column is unusual and rare in the cervical spine.