A woman with painful bruising of the fingers
Keusters, L.F.; Bemelmans, R.H.H.
Nederlands Tijdschrift Voor Geneeskunde 162
2018
ISSN/ISBN: 1876-8784 PMID: 30358364 Document Number: 695149
We describe a 45-year-old woman with recurrent episodes of painful bruising of the fingers, caused by minimal, everyday traumata. We concluded this to be Achenbach's syndrome (acute idiopathic blue finger), a benign condition that does not require treatment or follow-up. The diagnosis can be made on clinical grounds.