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Cardiovascular Diseases > Vascular Diseases > Venous Insufficiency > Postphlebitic Syndrome
Cardiovascular Diseases > Vascular Diseases > Vasculitis > Phlebitis > Postphlebitic Syndrome
Cardiovascular Diseases > Vascular Diseases > Peripheral Vascular Diseases > Phlebitis > Postphlebitic Syndrome

Preferred term

Postphlebitic Syndrome  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Disease, Postphlebitic
  • Diseases, Postphlebitic
  • Postphlebitic Disease
  • Postphlebitic Diseases

Scope note

  • A condition characterized by a chronically swollen limb, often a leg with stasis dermatitis and ulcerations. This syndrome can appear soon after phlebitis or years later. Postphlebitic syndrome is the result of damaged or incompetent venous valves in the limbs. Distended, tortuous VARICOSE VEINS are usually present. Leg pain may occur after long period of standing.

History note

  • 87

In other languages

  • posttromboottinen oireyhtymä

    Finnish

  • laskimotulehduksen jälkeinen oireyhtymä
  • laskimotulehduksen jälkeinen syndrooma
  • laskimotulehduksenjälkeinen oireyhtymä
  • laskimotulehduksenjälkeinen syndrooma
  • postflebiittinen oireyhtymä
  • postflebiittinen syndrooma
  • posttromboottinen syndrooma
  • posttrombotiskt syndrom
  • syndroma postphlebiticum
  • Postflebitiskt syndrom

    Swedish

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D011186

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