2. Raynaud’s phenomenon (RP)
• Paroxysmal exaggerated vasoconstriction of
digital arteries and arterioles
• Results in cyanosis and pallor
• Sometimes may affect: Nose, ear and lips
• Types:
– Primary RP
• Response to cold / emotional stress
• CF: Atrophic changes may develop in the course of time
– Secondary RP
• SLE, Scleroderma, Buerger’s disease
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4. Buerger’s disease
Thromboangiitis obliterans - TAO
• Def: It’s segmental, thrombosing arteritis
affecting small & medium sized vessels of acute
or chronic nature
• Men <40yrs
• Smokers
• Arteries: Tibial, femoral, peroneal & popleteal
• Upper limb involvement – 70%
• More common in Asians than in Western
countries
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5. Buerger’s disease
Thromboangiitis obliterans - TAO
Morphology:
• Thrombosis
• Initially: Neutrophil exudate in all the layers –
microabscesses
• Later: lymphocytes and macrophages,
occasionally giant cells
• Musculature of the media and elastic laminae
are preserved
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8. Buerger’s disease
Thromboangiitis obliterans - TAO
Clinical features:
• Intermittent claudication
– In the instep
– Less commonly in the calf
– Rarely in the upper limbs
• Later: pain comes on at night and is relieved by walking / hanging
the leg over the side of bed
• Pulse may be absent in the small vessels like Dorsalis pedis and
Radial
• Raynaud’s phenomenon
– 50% of patients develop this when the hands are exposed to
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11. Varicose veins
• Abnormally dilated tortuous veins
• Due to:
– Prolonged increased pressure within
– Loss of vessel wall support
• Site: Superficial vessels of lower limbs are affected
• Women more commonly affected
• Obesity increases the risk
• Familial tendencies are seen in some
• CF: Edema, Stasis dermatitis, Ulceration, Thombosis
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18. Thrombophlebitis & Phlebothrombosis
• Interchangeable terms
• Components:
– Venous thrombosis and
– Inflammation
• Sites:
– Deep veins of legs
– Periprostatic plexus in male
– Pelvic venous plexus in female
– Large veins of skull & dural sinuses
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20. Known for:
Trousseau sign of malignancy
Trousseau sign of latent tetany
Trousseau-Lallemand bodies
"use new drugs quickly, while
they still work"
During his later years Trousseau developed pancreatic cancer.
Coincidentally, he previously described Trousseau sign of malignancy
and developed a similar finding in himself. This cancer limited his
activities and eventually proved fatal.
Armand Trousseau
(1801-1867)
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21. Case: Identify the abnormality.
Give your differentials.
Marcos Duarte Siosaki, M.D., and Ana Tarsila Souza, M.D.
N Engl J Med 2013; 368:e7February 7, 2013
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMicm1204740
22. Case: Identify the abnormality.
Give your differentials.
Marcos Duarte Siosaki, M.D., and Ana Tarsila Souza, M.D.
N Engl J Med 2013; 368:e7February 7, 2013
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMicm1204740
Virchow's node
or
Troisier's node
23. Dr.Troisier
The French pathologist Charles Emile Troisier noted in 1889 that
other abdominal cancers, too, could spread to the Virchow’s node
Cf
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25. Hemangiomas
• Very common tumors
• Increased number of blood vessels filled with
blood
• Many of the capillary lesions seen in infancy
may regress spontaneously as the child grows
(by the age of 7years)
• Some hemangiomas involve large portions of
the body – Angiomatosis
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26. Capilalry Hemangioma
• Sites: Skin, subcutis, oral cavity, liver, spleen,
kidney
• Strawberry angioma – new borns
Morphology:
• Bright red to blue
• Closely packed thin walled blood vessels
• Lined by flat endothelium
• Scant connective tissue
• Hemorrhages, thrombosis, hemosiderin laden MØ
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30. Cavernous angioma
• Large dilated vascular channels
• Less well circumscribed
• Frequently involve deep structures
• May be a part of VHL, Muffucci syndromes
Morphology:
• Red blue soft spongy masses
• Large intercommunicating vascular channels
• Modest connective tissue stroma
• Thrombosis and calcification
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34. Granuloma pyogenicum
(Pregnancy tumor)
• A form of capillary angioma
• Rapidly growing
• Pedunculated red nodule
• Skin, gingiva, oral mucosa
• “Bleeds on touch”
• Capillaries arranged in lobular fashion
• Finger like epidermal projections at the
margins
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41. Kaposi sarcoma (KS)
Forms of KS:
• Chronic KS (Classic)
• Lymphadenopathic KS
• Transplant associated KS
• AIDS associated KS
Pathogenesis:
• HHV8 (KSHV)
• Latent infection in endothelial cells > [p53
inhibitors + Cyclin-D equivalent + viral G protein
which induces VEGF] > Cellular proliferation
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42. Kaposi sarcoma (KS)
Morphology:
• Patches / plaques / nodules
• Red / purple / violaceous
• Dermal accumulations of spindle cells with slit like
spaces with extravasated RBCs
• Hemosiderin laden macrophages
• Mitotic figures are common in nodular form
Nodular forms often heralds LN and visceral
involvement
IFN-α anti-VEGF are effective
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