Clinical problem-solving. A sinister development--a 35-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with a 2-day history of progressive swelling and pain in her left leg, without antecedent trauma

N Engl J Med. 2007 Jul 5;357(1):53-9. doi: 10.1056/NEJMcps061337.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Anticoagulants / administration & dosage
  • Constriction, Pathologic / complications
  • Constriction, Pathologic / diagnosis
  • Contraceptives, Oral
  • Edema / etiology
  • Enoxaparin / administration & dosage
  • Female
  • Fibrinolytic Agents / therapeutic use
  • Humans
  • Iliac Artery / anatomy & histology
  • Iliac Vein* / diagnostic imaging
  • Iliac Vein* / pathology
  • Leg
  • Lumbar Vertebrae / anatomy & histology
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Pain / etiology
  • Peripheral Vascular Diseases / diagnosis*
  • Phlebography
  • Syndrome
  • Tissue Plasminogen Activator / therapeutic use
  • Ultrasonography, Interventional
  • Venous Thrombosis / diagnosis*
  • Venous Thrombosis / drug therapy
  • Venous Thrombosis / etiology

Substances

  • Anticoagulants
  • Contraceptives, Oral
  • Enoxaparin
  • Fibrinolytic Agents
  • Tissue Plasminogen Activator