Venous Ulceration
- Common problem, esp. elderly
Evaluation
- History
- Site
- characteristics
- surrounding tissues
- regional findings
- patients general health
Suggestive of venous cause
- chronic venous insufficiency
- Skin often weeps plasma in venous insufficiency
- rarely painful, fluctuate between healing and breakdown
- rarely SCC develops (Marjolins ulcer)
- previous history of DVT
- gaiter area, rare in other sites
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