- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Contributors
- Symbols and abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Plastic surgery science
- Chapter 2 Embryology
- Chapter 3 Anatomy and clinical assessment
- Chapter 4 Drugs and tools
- Chapter 5 Congenital
- Chapter 6 Skin
- Chapter 7 Eyelid
- Chapter 8 Nose, ear, face, mouth
- Chapter 9 Head and neck
- Chapter 10 Chest
- Chapter 11 Abdomen and trunk
- Chapter 12 Upper limb
- Chapter 13 Lower limb
- Chapter 14 Vascular
- Chapter 15 Infection
- Chapter 16 Tumours
- Chapter 17 Trauma
- Chapter 18 Metabolic, endocrine, degenerative
- Chapter 19 Miscellaneous disorders
- Chapter 20 Aesthetic
- Chapter 21 Reconstruction
- Chapter 22 Flaps
- Chapter 23 Appendices
- Index
- Index
(p. 449) Vascular
- Chapter:
- (p. 449) Vascular
- Author(s):
Henk Giele
and Oliver Cassell
- DOI:
- 10.1093/med/9780192632227.003.0014
Raynaud's phenomenon 450
Lymphoedema 453
Vascular anomalies 457
Haemangiomas 459
Vascular malformations 461
Raynaud's phenomenon (RP) is a vasospastic condition affecting terminal arteries, classically characterized by colour change of the end-organ from pallor to cyanosis and rubor (white, then blue, then red). Blanching is followed by cyanosis due to the stasis of deoxygenated blood, and lastly rubor as a result of hyperaemic blood flow returning to the fingers....
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- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Contributors
- Symbols and abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Plastic surgery science
- Chapter 2 Embryology
- Chapter 3 Anatomy and clinical assessment
- Chapter 4 Drugs and tools
- Chapter 5 Congenital
- Chapter 6 Skin
- Chapter 7 Eyelid
- Chapter 8 Nose, ear, face, mouth
- Chapter 9 Head and neck
- Chapter 10 Chest
- Chapter 11 Abdomen and trunk
- Chapter 12 Upper limb
- Chapter 13 Lower limb
- Chapter 14 Vascular
- Chapter 15 Infection
- Chapter 16 Tumours
- Chapter 17 Trauma
- Chapter 18 Metabolic, endocrine, degenerative
- Chapter 19 Miscellaneous disorders
- Chapter 20 Aesthetic
- Chapter 21 Reconstruction
- Chapter 22 Flaps
- Chapter 23 Appendices
- Index
- Index