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Preferred term

Postthrombotic Syndrome  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Entry terms

  • Syndrome, Venous Stasis
  • Venous Stasis Syndrome

Scope note

  • A condition caused by one or more episodes of DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS, usually the blood clots are lodged in the legs. Clinical features include EDEMA; PAIN; aching; heaviness; and MUSCLE CRAMP in the leg. When severe leg swelling leads to skin breakdown, it is called venous STASIS ULCER.

History note

  • 2008

In other languages

  • Finnish

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

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D054070

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