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06 / Vascular Surgery · clerkship

The cold white leg

  1. ED
  2. Investigations
  3. Pre-Op
  4. OR
  5. Ward
  6. Debrief

Ninety minutes in

The right leg is white, cold from mid-thigh, and painful. There is no femoral pulse below the groin on that side. Light touch is reduced over the forefoot but she can still wiggle her toes. The left leg has palpable pulses throughout.

Open in 3D: the femoral and popliteal arteries

Embolus or thrombosis in situ, and what tells you?

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