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Varicose veins, Spider Veins? Dr Jozef Tryzno, is one of the very few physicians in Illinois Certified by American Board of Phlebology and Registered Vascular Technologist
 

ARTERIAL LEG ULCERS
 

 
 

Arterial leg ulcers are caused by arterial insufficiency, which leads to ulceration of the skin.

They are frequently painful, particularly when elevated and at night. The patient gets out of bed and walks about in order to obtain relief. Other symptoms include, coldness, numbness, burning.

 
 
Stages:
  
I
 The skin is dry, scaly, thin and cool. The color is pale, cyanosed or blotchy.
II
 The hair on the lower leg and toes is sparse or absent.
III
 Toenails are thickened and require less cutting.
IV
 Ulcers are well defined, punched out, deep. They occur primarily on the shin, hell, dorsum of the foot or toes, which are quite different sites from those of a venous ulcer.
V
 There are absent or diminished pulses. The final stage of sever ischaemia is gangrene. The toes are usually affected first.


   
 

 
 

 
   

 

 
                   
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