Thromboanfiitis obliterans (buerger'disease) and amokeless tobacco

✍ Scribed by J. T. Lie

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 270 KB
• Volume: 31
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0004-3591
• DOI: 10.1002/art.1780310620

✦ Synopsis

or Buerger's disease, is a distinct clinical and pathologic entity (1). It is a nonarteriosclerotic, segmental, inflammatory occlusive vascular disease that most commonly affects the medium-sized and small arteries and veins of the extremities (1,2). The cause of