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Figure 1. A 56-year-old woman began to have pain and redness of the left leg the day after a six-hour car ride. Two days later she was found to have erythema and tenderness on the medial aspect of the left knee and moderate pitting edema of the left ankle. The remainder of the examination was unremarkable. She had no history of deep venous thrombosis. Both her parents, however, had a history of deep venous thrombosis. Despite treatment with warm compresses, aspirin, and elevation of the leg, the pain and erythema increased. A palpable, ropelike cord was present from the . . . [Full Text of this Article] |
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