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Postgrad Med J 78:500 doi:10.1136/pmj.78.922.500
  • SELF ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS

Homocysteine and “Buerger’s disease”

  1. P A Courtney1,
  2. P C Sharpe2,
  3. R J E Lee1
  1. 1Department of Medicine, Craigavon Area Hospital, Portadown, Northern Ireland, UK
  2. 2Department of Clinical Biochemistry
  1. Correspondence to:
 Dr Peter Sharpe, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Craigavon Area Hospital, 68 Lurgan Road, Portadown, Northern Ireland BT63 5QQ, UK;
 psharpe{at}cahgt.n-i.nhs.uk
  • Received 29 January 2002
  • Accepted 25 March 2002

Answers on p 504.

A 42 year old woman presented with ischaemic left leg pain. There had been a right above knee amputation two years previously when Buerger’s disease was diagnosed. However, on review of the arteriogram there was proximal disease in …