Two Cases of Upper-Extremity Swelling
- 1 April 2010
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Pediatric Emergency Care
- Vol. 26 (4), 290-292
- https://doi.org/10.1097/pec.0b013e3181d6da96
Abstract
Two adolescents presented to our emergency department with isolated, acute onset upper-extremity swelling. In their initial emergency department evaluations, both patients were found to have a deep venous thrombosis. Despite their similar presentations, the etiologies of their deep venous thrombosis were very different. After further evaluation, one patient was diagnosed with Paget-Schroetter syndrome and the other with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. These cases illustrate the importance of maintaining a broad differential diagnosis and using a multidisciplinary approach to patients with the unusual and potentially life-threatening presentation of upper-extremity swelling.Keywords
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