[A woman with blue fingers]

Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2018 Jul 20:162:D2449.
[Article in Dutch]

Abstract

A 57-year-old woman presented to the Emergency Department with fingertips that turned blue, cold, and numb in several days. She noted a swelling in the lower abdomen that was diagnosed as ovarian cancer. Her fingers were affected by hypercoagulability as a paraneoplastic syndrome.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Cyanosis / etiology
  • Edema / etiology*
  • Female
  • Fingers
  • Humans
  • Hypesthesia / etiology
  • Middle Aged
  • Ovarian Neoplasms / complications*
  • Ovarian Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Paraneoplastic Syndromes / etiology*
  • Thrombophilia / etiology*