Raynaud's phenomenon
Ratner, G.L.; Slutsker, G.E.
Khirurgiia 6: 36-40
1991
ISSN/ISBN: 0023-1207 PMID: 1770734 Document Number: 376797
Raynaud's phenomenon is a pathological condition with a multicomponent pathogenesis characterizing the community of mechanisms of the reactivity of the terminal microvessels of the extremities in response to standard stimulation. Raynaud's phenomenon is not a nosological form. In discovering Raynaud's phenomenon, however, differential diagnosis must be conducted to recognize the disease which caused the phenomenon. The diagnosis of Raynaud's disease, which is a nosological form, can be established by the method of exclusion of all such diseases. Raynaud's syndrome in the existence of diseases which are the primary cause is merely a precise diagnostic formulation.