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Raynaud phenomenon that rapidly progressed to digital gangrene: a challenging diagnosis
Centro Médico Docente La Trinidad, Rheumatology, Avenida Intercomunal La Trinidad, El Hatillo, Caracas, 1080-A, Venezuela
Correspondence to:
Antonio G Tristano, mjtristano@cantv.net
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A 51-year-old woman presented pain with no inflammation on her knees, wrists, elbows and shoulders. Two months before her admission she had begun to experience Raynaud phenomenon on her toes and fingers with tingling pain and bilateral ankle oedema that quickly (1 week) progressed to digital gangrene. At her admission physical examination revealed sclerodactyly with digital necrosis on her second, fourth and fifth left fingers
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