A straightforward venous ulcer. or is it?
Elvy, M.
Australian Family Physician 27(1-2): 71-73
1998
ISSN/ISBN: 0300-8495 PMID: 9503710 Document Number: 484531
Venous ulcers are common in clinical practice. They are due to end stage skin and subcutaneous damage from sustained venous hypertension. The common cause may be post thrombotic syndrome or primary superficial venous insufficiency. This case illustrates the need to think of inherited thrombophilia as a primary cause.